Claim · #6492324
Delia radicum · pest pressure · Brassica napobrassica
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“mean number of female cabbage root flies caught at various trap spacings in a crop of swedes”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 20
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Delia radicum is a well-documented pest of Brassica crops including swede (B. napobrassica); source quote confirms adult female attraction to swede crop, consistent with stated mechanism.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Delia radicum is a well-documented pest of Brassica crops including swede; adult female attraction and larval root-feeding mechanism are biologically accurate and consistent with the source quote.”
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