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It is considered a pest of coconut palm trees, causing considerable damage to the trees, and reducing the plant's yield significantly and can be a major problem where coconuts contribute to the economy. The species exists on coconut palms through its life stages from larval to moth, and utilizes the tree fronds as a main source of nutrition.
Spots and discoloration areas can be smaller than 0.25 inches (6.4 mm) in size, but under optimal conditions can grow much larger eventually forming lesions. The spots will often turn a grayish color and will be outlined in black. Extreme wilting and a drying appearance on the leaves is also a major symptom of Pestalotiopsis palm. [1]
It roosts in well-lit open trees, [6] under palm fronds, in dense forests near rivers, under thatched roofs of sheds, and, rarely, in caves. [12] Roosting groups may be 3–100 individuals. Bats typically change roost locations daily or every few days [13] and may fly as far as 4 km (2.5 mi) to feeding areas.
Graphiola leaf spot Graphiola phoenicis: Gray leaf blight Pestalotiopsis palmarum: Koleroga Phytophthora palmivora: Leaf blight: Cytospora palmarum: Leaf spots: Alternaria sp. Botryosphaeria disrupta Capitorostrum cocoes Cercospora sp. Cochliobolus lunatus Cylindrocladium pteridis Drechslera gigantea D. halodes Epicoccum nigrum Helminthosporium ...
Forewing with a broadly triangular pale purplish-white preapical mark; both forewings and hindwings with a broad subterminal area purplish white. Hindwing with a small white spot opposite middle of the costa and a more or less complete series of more obscure whitish subterminal spots. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen brown; abdomen beneath paler.
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Washingtonia filifera is the only palm native to the Western United States and one of the country's largest native palms, [9] [10] exceeded in height only by the Cuban or Florida royal palm. [ 7 ] Primary populations are found in desert riparian habitats at spring-fed and stream-fed oases in the Colorado Desert [ 11 ] and at a few scattered ...