Claim · #6495846
Eriosoma lanigerum · pest pressure · Malus domestica
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Both nymphs and adults suck cell sap from trunk, branches, stems”
- 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
- 270
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Eriosoma lanigerum is a well-known apple aphid feeding on bark and roots; classification and damage type are correct.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Woolly apple aphid Hemiptera correctly identified as sap-sucker on apple trunks/branches/roots; affected parts match biology.”
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