Claim · #6734875
Cicadellidae (family) · pest pressure · Lactuca sativa
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Lettuce ... Leafhoppers Thrips”
- Authors
- University of Guam Cooperative Extension & Outreach
- Year
- 2024
- Publication
- University of Guam Cooperative Extension & Outreach
- Page
- 68
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Cicadellidae are recognized lettuce pests and aster yellows vectors; source lists leafhoppers alongside lettuce.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Leafhoppers (Cicadellidae) feed on lettuce phloem and vector phytoplasmas; family-level pest assignment is appropriate.”
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