Claim · #6495972
Trifolium incarnatum · provides refuge · Araneae (order)
provides refuge · effect: beneficial
interactsWith GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“increases the amount of spiders that patrol the broccoli plants”
- Source
- Companion Planting & Botanical Pesticides: Concepts & Resources
- Authors
- Kuepper G., Dodson M., Duncan J.
- Year
- 2016
- Publication
- ATTRA / National Center for Appropriate Technology IP125
- Page
- 6
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Living-mulch refuge provisioning for ground-active spiders is a documented mechanism.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Crimson clover ground cover providing spider refuge in broccoli is supported.”
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