Claim · #6495129
Eriosoma lanigerum · pest pressure · Malus domestica
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“woolly apple aphid (Eriosoma lanigerum), a pest of apple trees”
- Authors
- Das B.C., et al.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Parasitoids in Pest Management (book chapter: Aphidiinae Parasitoids)
- Page
- 303
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Eriosoma lanigerum (woolly apple aphid) is a globally distributed serious pest of Malus domestica attacking shoots and roots, controlled classically by Aphelinus mali.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Eriosoma lanigerum is a textbook example of a worldwide apple pest with both aerial (shoot) and edaphic (root) feeding stages.”
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