Claim · #6492916
Diatraea lineolata · pest pressure · Zea mays
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Diatraea saccharalis, D. lineolata and D. grandiosella have been inoculated on to maize”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 63
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Diatraea lineolata is a known crambid stalk borer; source quote directly confirms inoculation on maize, consistent with stem-boring pest classification.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Diatraea lineolata is a known crambid stalk borer; larval stem boring in Zea mays is biologically consistent with the genus's well-documented mode of damage.”
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