Claim · #6493235
Aphis gossypii · pest pressure · Tagetes erecta
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“highly infested food plants were … Tagetes erecta L.”
- Authors
- Das B.C., et al.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Parasitoids in Pest Management (book chapter: Aphidiinae Parasitoids)
- Page
- 97
AI critic verdicts
- entomologist · plausible
“Aphis gossypii is a polyphagous aphid with documented host range including Asteraceae; foliage herbivory on Tagetes erecta is biologically consistent with the source quote.”
- agroecologist · plausible
“Aphis gossypii is a polyphagous aphid with documented Tagetes hosts; source quote directly names Tagetes erecta as a highly infested plant, supporting the structured fields.”
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