Claim · #6492315
Icerya purchasi · pest pressure · Citrus spp.
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“control of the citrus pest of the cottony cushion scale (Icerya purchasi) in California”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 2
AI critic verdicts
- entomologist · plausible
“Icerya purchasi is a well-documented serious citrus pest; the 1888 vedalia beetle (Rodolia cardinalis) biocontrol introduction in California is a canonical IPM success story.”
- agroecologist · plausible
“Icerya purchasi as a serious citrus pest controlled by vedalia beetle (Rodolia cardinalis) in 1889 California is one of the most well-documented classical biocontrol cases in agroecology history.”
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