Claim · #6493225
Pterochloroides persicae · pest pressure · Prunus persica
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“caused severe losses to the country's 70,000 farmers”
- Authors
- Das B.C., et al.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Parasitoids in Pest Management (book chapter: Aphidiinae Parasitoids)
- Page
- 96
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Pterochloroides persicae (brown peach aphid) is a known severe pest of Prunus persica in Middle East/North Africa, and Yemen context aligns with documented regional outbreaks causing tree death.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Pterochloroides persicae (brown peach aphid) is a known severe pest of Prunus persica in Middle East/North Africa; Yemen context and tree-level damage align with documented outbreaks.”
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