The coconut palm (Cocos nucifera L.) is a common crop in pantropical areas facing various
challenges, one of them being the control of diseases and pests. Diseases such as bud rot …

Simple Summary Pest molecular characterization is an essential practice to support and
complete the classical morphological taxonomy of insects, as well as to provide helpful …

Accurate identification of species is fundamental to both basic and applied research.
Classification and identification of various life forms, particularly insects, has been a major …

Insect outbreaks usually involve important ecological and economic consequences for
agriculture and forestry. The short-winged bush-cricket Barbitistes vicetinus Galvagni & …

There are several factors, such as genetic drift, gene flow and migration that affect the
population genetic structure and phylogeographic distribution of genetic lineages within …

The Philippine coconut production has been greatly affected by the recent devastating
infestation of Aspidiotus spp. However, identification of the outbreak species, Aspidotus …

Anggraini E, Sinaga TM, Irsan C, Herlinda S, Muslim A, Hamidson H, Sefrila M,
Kurnianingsih A, Aryani D, Antoni M, Ikhsan Z. 2024. Insects found in different ages of …

The purpose of this study is to develop a coconut scale insect infestation forecasting system
for Philippine Coconut Authority in Southern Luzon, Philippines. The system was developed …

Correctly identifying target insect pests and their natural enemies is important in biological
control management programs. In the scale insect outbreak that devastated the coconut …

Maximum entropy (MaxEnt) is a general purpose machine learning method that estimates a
target probability distribution based on the distribution of maximum entropy (closest to …