Claim · #6495936
Araneae (order) · biocontrol · Aphidoidea (superfamily)
biocontrol · effect: beneficial
preysOn GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Spiders eat a great variety of pests, including aphids, flea beetles, cucumber beetles, leafhoppers”
- 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
- 5
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Spiders are generalist arthropod predators consuming aphids and other soft-bodied pests.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Araneae predation on aphids and other small pests is well-documented in IPM literature.”
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