Claim · #6492672
Rhagoletis pomonella · pest pressure · Malus domestica
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“An important pest of apples in the northern United States is the apple maggot”
- Authors
- Pedigo L.P.
- Year
- 2002
- Publication
- Prentice Hall / Pearson Education
- Page
- 131
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Rhagoletis pomonella is a well-documented tephritid fly pest of Malus domestica; source quote directly supports all structured fields including regional context and severity.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Rhagoletis pomonella is a well-established, economically significant apple pest in northeastern/northern US; source quote directly supports all structured fields.”
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