Claim · #6492387
Busseola fusca · herbivory · Zea mays
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“numbers of maize plants damaged by the stalkborer Busseola fusca were counted on each farm”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 53
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Busseola fusca is a well-documented stem-boring noctuid moth pest of Zea mays in East Africa including Kenya; source quote directly confirms stalkborer damage counts on maize farms.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Busseola fusca (Noctuidae) is a well-documented stem-boring pest of Zea mays in East Africa including Kenya; larval feeding on stems during vegetative stage is consistent with known biology.”
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