Claim · #6492502
Busseola fusca · pest pressure · Zea mays
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Napier grass and Sudan grass attracting stemborer colonisation”
- Authors
- Gurr G.M., Wratten S.D., Altieri M.A.
- Year
- 2004
- Publication
- CSIRO Publishing
- Page
- 46
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Busseola fusca is a well-documented high-severity stem-boring pest of Zea mays in Kenya; push-pull with Napier grass as a trap crop is canonical IPM for this system.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Busseola fusca is a well-documented major stemborer pest of Zea mays in Kenya; push-pull with Napier grass as a trap crop is a classic validated IPM system.”
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