Claim · #6492109
Delia antiqua · pest pressure · Allium cepa
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“major onion insect pest, the onion maggot (Delia antiqua)”
- Authors
- Altieri M.A., Farrell J.G., Hecht S.B., Liebman M., Magdoff F., Murphy B., Norgaard R.B., Sikor T.O.
- Year
- 1995
- Publication
- CRC Press / Westview Press
- Page
- 103
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Delia antiqua is well-documented as the primary insect pest of Allium cepa, and early-planted trap cropping is a recognized IPM strategy for this species.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Delia antiqua is well-established as the primary insect pest of Allium cepa; bulb/root damage by larvae in spring is biologically accurate and regionally consistent with Michigan.”
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