Claim · #6492755
Diabrotica spp. · pest pressure · Zea mays
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“most grasshoppers and corn rootworms diapause as eggs”
- Authors
- Pedigo L.P.
- Year
- 2002
- Publication
- Prentice Hall / Pearson Education
- Page
- 171
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Diabrotica spp. are well-documented univoltine corn pests; egg diapause overwinter strategy is textbook-accurate and consistent with source quote.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Diabrotica spp. are well-documented univoltine corn pests that overwinter as diapausing eggs; source quote directly supports the egg-diapause assertion.”
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