Claim · #6492111
Delia radicum · pest pressure · Raphanus sativus
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“continuous food supply for the...cabbage maggot”
- 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
- entomologist · plausible
“Delia radicum (cabbage maggot) is a well-documented root pest of Brassicaceae including Raphanus sativus; larval root-feeding damage and host suitability are established entomological fact.”
- agroecologist · plausible
“Delia radicum is a well-documented pest of Raphanus sativus roots; radish as alternate host providing season-long food resource for cabbage maggot is biologically consistent with its brassicaceous host range.”
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