Claim · #6495842
Quadraspidiotus perniciosus · pest pressure · Malus domestica
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“San Jose scale nymphs and females attack the above ground parts”
- Source
- Insect-Pest Complex and Integrated Pest Management on Apple in Jammu and Kashmir, India
- Authors
- Hussain B., Buhroo A.A., War A.R., Sheerwani A.
- Year
- 2017
- Publication
- Indian Apple: Production and Value Chain Analysis (Chapter 17)
- Page
- 262
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Quadraspidiotus perniciosus is a major scale pest of apple; entity types and herbivory direction correct.”
- entomologist · plausible
“San Jose scale (Diaspididae) nymphs and adult females feed on apple branches/twigs/fruit via stylets; classification correct.”
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