Claim · #6494747
Icerya purchasi · herbivory · Citrus spp.
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“vedalia beetle for cottony cushion scale in California (80 years)”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Icerya purchasi is a well-documented high-severity citrus pest; Rodolia cardinalis (vedalia beetle) biocontrol in California is a canonical IPM success story, consistent with source quote and structured fields.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Icerya purchasi is a well-documented major citrus pest, and Rodolia cardinalis (vedalia beetle) biocontrol in California is a classic, textbook IPM success story.”
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