Is Chamaedorea tepejilote a good replacement?

[idontknowhatnametuse]

My Cocos nucifera 'Panama Tall' seems to have gotten lethal bronzing or yellowing or maybe both (I don't know how to tell them apart. Since TS Alberto, my yard is infested with Haplaxius crudus (The vector of both diseases) and I don't know how to kill them. The only thing that is helping control them are spiders. My question is; would Chamaedorea tepejilote be a good replacement? The spot is shady but I just don't know how susceptible they are to both diseases. I have 3 Chamaedorea tepejilote gaining size right now.

[idontknowhatnametuse]

(Bump) Anyone? Or is there any other palm species that is immune, and I could use to replace the coconut in case it doesn't make it? I don't want these sick insects to leave my garden without palms.

[Merlyn]

@idontknowhatnametuse the UFL pages have tables of known susceptible palms, which really covers a wide range:

https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/PP146

• Adonidia merrillii
• Dictyosperma album
• Phoenix reclinata
• Aiphanes lindeniana
• Dypsis cabadae
• Phoenix rupicola
• Allagoptera arenaria
• Dypsis decaryi
• Phoenix sylvestris
• Arenga engleri
• Gaussia attenuata
• Pritchardia affinis
• Borassus flabellifer
• Howea belmoreana
• Pritchardia pacifica
• Caryota mitis
• Howea forsteriana
• Pritchardia remota
• Caryota rumphiana
• Hyophorbe verschaffeltii
• Pritchardia thurstonii
• Chelyocarpus chuco
• Latania lontaroides
• Ravenea hildebrantii
• Cocos nucifera
• Livistona chinensis
• Syagrus schizophylla
• Copernicia alba
• Livistona rotundifolia
• Trachycarpus fortunei
• Corypha taliera
• Nannorrhops ritchiana
• Veitchia arecina
• Crysophila warsecewiczii
• Phoenix canariensis
• Cyphophoenix nucele
• Phoenix dactylifera

For Lethal Bronzing the list is somewhat shorter https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/PP163:

• Acrocomia aculeata
• Adonidia merrillii
• Arenga engleri
• Attalea butyracea
• Bismarckia nobilis
• Brahea brandegeei
• Butia odorata
• Carpentaria acuminata
• Cocos nucifera
• Livistona chinensis
• Phoenix canariensis
• Phoenix dactylifera
• Phoenix roebelinii
• Phoenix sylvestris
• Pritchardia pacifica
• Pseudophoenix sargentii
• Rhapidophyllum hystrix
• Sabal Mexicana
• Sabal palmetto
• Syagrus romanzoffiana
• Trachycarpus fortunei

Just because a palm is on the list doesn't mean automatic death...and just because a palm is NOT on the list doesn't mean it's immune.  For example, it's known that Sabal Palmetto is susceptible to LB, and quite a few have died from it.  But in local highway plantings I've seen near 100% mortality in Phoenix Dactylifera and Sylvestris...and maybe 1% mortality in the Sabals in the immediate vicinity.

[idontknowhatnametuse]

1 hour ago, Merlyn said:

@idontknowhatnametuse the UFL pages have tables of known susceptible palms, which really covers a wide range:

https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/PP146

• Adonidia merrillii
• Dictyosperma album
• Phoenix reclinata
• Aiphanes lindeniana
• Dypsis cabadae
• Phoenix rupicola
• Allagoptera arenaria
• Dypsis decaryi
• Phoenix sylvestris
• Arenga engleri
• Gaussia attenuata
• Pritchardia affinis
• Borassus flabellifer
• Howea belmoreana
• Pritchardia pacifica
• Caryota mitis
• Howea forsteriana
• Pritchardia remota
• Caryota rumphiana
• Hyophorbe verschaffeltii
• Pritchardia thurstonii
• Chelyocarpus chuco
• Latania lontaroides
• Ravenea hildebrantii
• Cocos nucifera
• Livistona chinensis
• Syagrus schizophylla
• Copernicia alba
• Livistona rotundifolia
• Trachycarpus fortunei
• Corypha taliera
• Nannorrhops ritchiana
• Veitchia arecina
• Crysophila warsecewiczii
• Phoenix canariensis
• Cyphophoenix nucele
• Phoenix dactylifera

For Lethal Bronzing the list is somewhat shorter https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/PP163:

• Acrocomia aculeata
• Adonidia merrillii
• Arenga engleri
• Attalea butyracea
• Bismarckia nobilis
• Brahea brandegeei
• Butia odorata
• Carpentaria acuminata
• Cocos nucifera
• Livistona chinensis
• Phoenix canariensis
• Phoenix dactylifera
• Phoenix roebelinii
• Phoenix sylvestris
• Pritchardia pacifica
• Pseudophoenix sargentii
• Rhapidophyllum hystrix
• Sabal Mexicana
• Sabal palmetto
• Syagrus romanzoffiana
• Trachycarpus fortunei

Just because a palm is on the list doesn't mean automatic death...and just because a palm is NOT on the list doesn't mean it's immune.  For example, it's known that Sabal Palmetto is susceptible to LB, and quite a few have died from it.  But in local highway plantings I've seen near 100% mortality in Phoenix Dactylifera and Sylvestris...and maybe 1% mortality in the Sabals in the immediate vicinity.

I know that. Elaeis guineensis should be on the LB list by the way, I suggested planting Chamaedorea because I've never seen anyone report a case of LY or LB in any of them. Do you know how I can keep Haplaxius crudus away from my garden by the way? There's hundreds of them.