Claim · #6492664
Ostrinia nubilalis · pest pressure · Capsicum annuum
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“it also damages peppers and other garden crops”
- Authors
- Pedigo L.P.
- Year
- 2002
- Publication
- Prentice Hall / Pearson Education
- Page
- 125
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Ostrinia nubilalis is a documented polyphagous pest attacking pepper stems and fruit in the US; source quote directly supports the structured claim.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Ostrinia nubilalis is a documented polyphagous pest attacking pepper (Capsicum annuum) in the US; source quote directly supports the structured claim.”
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