Claim · #6492617
Manduca spp. · pest pressure · Nicotiana tabacum
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Studies of an integrated control system for hornworms on tobacco”
- Authors
- Gurr G.M., Wratten S.D., Altieri M.A.
- Year
- 2004
- Publication
- CSIRO Publishing
- Page
- 94
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Manduca spp. (tobacco hornworms) are well-documented defoliating pests of Nicotiana tabacum; source quote directly matches the structured pest-crop vulnerability claim.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Manduca sexta and M. quinquemaculata are well-documented hornworm pests of Nicotiana tabacum; the claim of pest pressure is biologically consistent and source quote directly supports the structured fields.”
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