Claim · #6492673
Hoplocampa cookei · pest pressure · Prunus avium
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“attacking fruit crops of cherries and plums in the western United States”
- Authors
- Pedigo L.P.
- Year
- 2002
- Publication
- Prentice Hall / Pearson Education
- Page
- 134
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Hoplocampa cookei (cherry fruit sawfly) is a well-documented Hymenoptera pest of Prunus fruit crops; fruit damage at fruiting stage is consistent with larval biology.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Hoplocampa cookei (cherry fruit sawfly) is a known hymenopteran pest of Prunus fruits; larval feeding on cherry fruit is well-documented and consistent with the structured fields.”
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