Coconut ( Cocos nucifera L.) is an important cash crop for Asia, Africa and tropical America. The coconut mite, Aceria guerreronis Keifer (Acari: Eriophyidae) a major pest, inflicting heavy damage to fruits, thereby reducing yields farmers profitability . Previous research has demonstrated that high contents of sesquiterpenes compounds present in the essential oil Vitex gardneriana Schauer (Lam...

Red raspberry, Rubus idaeus, is known to be infested by at least six species of eriophyid mites. Among them, the raspberry leaf and bud mite, Phyllocoptes gracilis, (Figure 1, A–B) only vector a virus, namely blotch virus (RLBV) (Dong et al. 2016; McGavin 2012; Tan 2022). Raspberry C), disorder displaying as chlorosis, distortion patchy necrosis, yellowing thinning on lateral branches, has been...