Claim · #6492757
Empoasca fabae · pest pressure · Solanum tuberosum
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“potato leafhopper (Empoasca fabae) cannot survive winters of the upper midwestern United States”
- Authors
- Pedigo L.P.
- Year
- 2002
- Publication
- Prentice Hall / Pearson Education
- Page
- 189
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Empoasca fabae is a well-documented migratory pest overwintering in the Gulf Coast region, annually reinvading northern US crops; source quote aligns with structured fields.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Empoasca fabae is well-documented as a migratory pest that overwinters in the Gulf states and annually reinvades northern/midwestern US during growing season, consistent with source quote.”
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