Claim · #6492920
Zeuzera pyrina · pest pressure · Pyrus communis
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“young apple and pear trees attacked by the leopard moth, Zeuzera pyrina”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 53
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Zeuzera pyrina is a well-documented wood-boring lepidopteran pest of Malus domestica; larval tunneling in stems causes dieback and mortality in young trees, consistent with all structured fields.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Zeuzera pyrina (Cossidae) is a well-documented wood-boring pest of young apple trees; larval tunneling in stems causing mortality is consistent with established entomological literature.”
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