Claim · #6734937
Tetranychidae (family) · pest pressure · Cucurbita maxima
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Squash, Winter ... Spider Mites”
- Authors
- University of Guam Cooperative Extension & Outreach
- Year
- 2024
- Publication
- University of Guam Cooperative Extension & Outreach
- Page
- 76
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Tetranychidae spider mites are well-known foliar pests of Cucurbita; observational extension claim is biologically reasonable.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Tetranychid mites feed on leaf undersides of cucurbits; family-level identification with leaf affected_part is standard and accurate.”
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