Claim · #6493430
Lygus hesperus · herbivory · Gossypium hirsutum
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“blossom abortion caused by bug feeding is significantly reduced in the cotton”
- Authors
- Pedigo L.P., Rice M.E.
- Year
- 2009
- Publication
- Pearson Prentice Hall
- Page
- 372
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Lygus hesperus is a well-documented pest of Gossypium hirsutum; its stylet feeding on floral buds and blossoms causing square and blossom abortion is standard IPM literature, and the source quote directly supports the structured claim.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Lygus hesperus is a well-documented piercing-sucking pest of cotton causing blossom/square abortion; source quote directly supports the structured claim.”
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