Claim · #6492760
Cydia pomonella · pest pressure · Malus domestica
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“pests like the codling moth, Cydia pomonella, are sometimes considered K strategists”
- Authors
- Pedigo L.P.
- Year
- 2002
- Publication
- Prentice Hall / Pearson Education
- Page
- 183
AI critic verdicts
- entomologist · plausible
“Cydia pomonella described as a K-strategist is an established ecological characterization; source quote directly supports the extracted claim with appropriate hedging ('sometimes considered').”
- agroecologist · plausible
“Codling moth as K-strategist is ecologically defensible; the source quote's hedged 'sometimes considered' aligns with the extracted claim's framing.”
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