Claim · #6492134
Busseola fusca · herbivory · Zea mays
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“habitat management system to control stem borers and striga...planted together with maize”
- Source
- Agroecosystems Analysis
- Authors
- Rickerl D., Francis C., Gliessman S.R., Nicholls C.I., Altieri M.A., Janke R.R., Dobbs T.L., Flora C.B., Schumacher T.E., Caldwell R.M., Salomonsson L., Lieblein G., Helenius J., Kirschenmann F.
- Year
- 2004
- Publication
- Agronomy Monograph No. 43, American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America
- Page
- 55
AI critic verdicts
- entomologist · plausible
“Busseola fusca is a well-documented high-severity stem-boring pest of Zea mays in sub-Saharan Africa; push-pull IPM system is established for Kenya context.”
- agroecologist · plausible
“Busseola fusca as a high-severity stem-boring herbivore of Zea mays in Kenya, controlled via push-pull, is well-documented and the source quote supports it.”
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