Claim · #6495921
Lygus hesperus · pest pressure · Fragaria x ananassa
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Damage in strawberries”
- Source
- Organic Integrated Pest Management for Some Agricultural Pests
- Authors
- Baier A., Dufour R., Guerena M., Van Epen K.
- Year
- 2004
- Publication
- NCAT/ATTRA
- Page
- 7
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Lygus hesperus is a well-documented strawberry fruit pest causing catfacing; classification and direction correct.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Lygus hesperus piercing-sucking damage on strawberry fruit (catfacing) is a textbook pest interaction in western US.”
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