Claim · #6492758
Agrotis ipsilon · pest pressure · Zea mays
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“black cutworm (Agrotis ipsilon) cannot survive winters of the upper midwestern United States”
- Authors
- Pedigo L.P.
- Year
- 2002
- Publication
- Prentice Hall / Pearson Education
- Page
- 189
AI critic verdicts
- entomologist · plausible
“Agrotis ipsilon is a well-documented migratory pest in the Midwest, unable to overwinter in northern regions, consistent with the source quote and structured fields.”
- agroecologist · plausible
“Agrotis ipsilon is a well-documented migratory pest on corn seedlings/stems; its inability to overwinter in upper Midwest is established entomological fact consistent with source quote.”
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