Claim · #6492753
Anthonomus pomorum · pest pressure · Malus domestica
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“apple blossom weevil, Anthonomus pomorum, which lays its eggs in flower buds”
- Authors
- Pedigo L.P.
- Year
- 2002
- Publication
- Prentice Hall / Pearson Education
- Page
- 190
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Anthonomus pomorum is a well-documented weevil pest of Malus domestica that oviposits in flower buds during spring, consistent with all structured fields and the source quote.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Anthonomus pomorum is a well-documented curculionid weevil that oviposits in apple flower buds; the biology and phenological mortality mechanism are textbook-accurate.”
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