Claim · #6493504
Icerya purchasi · pest pressure · Citrus spp.
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“scale threatened the entire California citrus industry”
- Authors
- Pedigo L.P., Rice M.E.
- Year
- 2009
- Publication
- Pearson Prentice Hall
- Page
- 316
AI critic verdicts
- entomologist · plausible
“Icerya purchasi is a well-documented Margarodidae scale insect; its devastating impact on California citrus by the late 1880s is a canonical biocontrol history case.”
- agroecologist · plausible
“Icerya purchasi devastated California citrus in the 1880s–90s; 'historically_severe' severity and source quote align with well-documented IPM history.”
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