Claim · #6734955
Coccoidea (superfamily) · pest pressure · Persea americana
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Avocado Loopers Scales Thrips”
- Authors
- University of Guam Cooperative Extension & Outreach
- Year
- 2024
- Publication
- University of Guam Cooperative Extension & Outreach
- Page
- 72
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Coccoidea (scale insects) are well-documented avocado pests worldwide including tropical Pacific; superfamily-level claim biologically reasonable.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Scale insects (Coccoidea) are sap-suckers, not strictly leaf-eaters; interaction_type_globi=eats is a loose fit but pest_pressure correctly identifies herbivory on avocado.”
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