Claim · #6492391
Zeuzera pyrina · herbivory · Pyrus communis
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“young apple and pear trees attacked by the leopard moth, Zeuzera pyrina”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 53
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Zeuzera pyrina is a well-documented wood-boring lepidopteran whose larvae girdle branches/trunks of Malus domestica, causing dieback or mortality in young trees; source quote directly supports structured fields.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Zeuzera pyrina larvae bore into wood of young Malus domestica trees causing dieback/mortality; source quote directly supports the structured fields.”
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