Claim · #6492612
Phthorimaea operculella · pest pressure · Solanum tuberosum
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“biological control of potato moth, Phthorimaea operculella”
- Authors
- Gurr G.M., Wratten S.D., Altieri M.A.
- Year
- 2004
- Publication
- CSIRO Publishing
- Page
- 88
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Phthorimaea operculella is a well-documented key pest of Solanum tuberosum globally, and Copidosoma koehleri is its established egg-larval parasitoid used in Australian biocontrol programs.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Phthorimaea operculella is a well-documented key potato pest, and Copidosoma koehleri is a known polyembryonic parasitoid used in its biocontrol, consistent with Australian IPM literature.”
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