Claim · #6492914
Busseola fusca · pest pressure · Zea mays
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“numbers of maize plants damaged by the stalkborer Busseola fusca were counted”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 53
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Busseola fusca (African maize stalkborer, Noctuidae) is a well-documented stem-boring pest of Zea mays in East Africa; source quote and structured fields are consistent.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Busseola fusca (African maize stalkborer, Noctuidae) is a well-documented stem-boring pest of Zea mays in East Africa, including Kenya's Trans Nzoia District; source quote directly supports the structured fields.”
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