Claim · #6492406
Pseudaletia unipunctata · pest pressure · Zea mays
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Parasitism of the armyworm, Pseudaletia unipunctata, was significantly higher in maize fields embedded in a complex landscape”
- Authors
- Gurr G.M., Wratten S.D., Altieri M.A.
- Year
- 2004
- Publication
- CSIRO Publishing
- Page
- 19
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Pseudaletia unipunctata (armyworm) is a well-documented Zea mays pest; landscape complexity enhancing parasitism is a core agroecological principle consistent with the source quote.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Pseudaletia unipunctata is a well-documented lepidopteran pest of maize; landscape-complexity effects on parasitism rates are biologically established in IPM literature.”
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