Claim · #6492290
Nuculaspis tsugae · pest pressure · Tsuga canadensis
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“scales feed on undersides of hemlock needles by sucking cell fluids”
- Authors
- Andow D.A., Ragsdale D.W., Nyvall R.F.
- Year
- 1997
- Publication
- Westview Press / Routledge
- Page
- 33
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Nuculaspis tsugae is a documented armored scale pest of Tsuga canadensis; feeding on needle undersides via phloem/cell-fluid sucking causing discoloration and drop is biologically consistent with the source quote.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Nuculaspis tsugae is a known armored scale pest of Tsuga spp.; stylet feeding on needle undersides causing chlorosis and needle drop is consistent with diaspidid biology.”
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