Claim · #6492817
Cydia pomonella · pest pressure · Malus domestica
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“codling moth larval damage to apples”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 1
AI critic verdicts
- entomologist · plausible
“Cydia pomonella larvae are the damaging stage that bore into apple fruit — classic direct pest damage, consistent with all structured fields.”
- agroecologist · plausible
“Cydia pomonella larvae boring into Malus domestica fruit is a textbook example of direct pest damage to harvestable product, well-supported by IPM literature globally.”
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