Claim · #6494445
Acalymma vittatum · pest pressure · Cucurbitaceae
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“survives over winter in the intestines of striped cucumber beetles”
- Authors
- Unknown
- Year
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- Publication
- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
- Page
- 641
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Acalymma vittatum as a vector of Erwinia tracheiphila in cucurbits via feeding wounds is well-documented; overwintering in beetle intestines is the established transmission mechanism.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Erwinia tracheiphila overwintering in Acalymma vittatum gut and transmission via feeding wounds is well-established plant-pathology fact; source quote directly supports the mechanism.”
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