Claim · #6494446
Diabrotica undecimpunctata · pest pressure · Cucurbitaceae
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“spotted cucumber beetles (Diabrotica undecimpunctata)”
- Authors
- Unknown
- Year
- Unknown
- Publication
- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
- Page
- 641
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Diabrotica undecimpunctata vectoring Erwinia tracheiphila to cucurbits is well-documented; direction, mechanism, and effect are all biologically correct.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Erwinia tracheiphila vectored by Diabrotica undecimpunctata causing bacterial wilt in cucurbits is well-established; direction and taxonomy are correct.”
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