Claim · #6492540
Ostrinia nubilalis · herbivory · Zea mays
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Trichogramma ostriniae collected from corn fields interplanted with flowering buckwheat”
- Authors
- Gurr G.M., Wratten S.D., Altieri M.A.
- Year
- 2004
- Publication
- CSIRO Publishing
- Page
- 70
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Ostrinia nubilalis is a well-established primary pest of Zea mays; Trichogramma ostriniae is its specialist egg parasitoid, making the implied host relationship biologically sound.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Ostrinia nubilalis is a well-established primary pest of Zea mays, and Trichogramma ostriniae is a known egg parasitoid of ECB, making the host inference biologically sound.”
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