Claim · #6493505
Icerya purchasi · pest pressure · Ornamental trees
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“also attacks shade trees, ornamentals, and other fruit trees”
- Authors
- Pedigo L.P., Rice M.E.
- Year
- 2009
- Publication
- Pearson Prentice Hall
- Page
- 316
AI critic verdicts
- entomologist · plausible
“Icerya purchasi is a polyphagous hemipteran scale insect well-documented attacking ornamentals, shade trees, and fruit trees beyond citrus, consistent with source quote.”
- agroecologist · plausible
“Icerya purchasi is a well-documented polyphagous scale insect attacking ornamentals, shade trees, and fruit trees; source quote directly supports the structured fields.”
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