Claim · #6492923
Choristoneura pinus · herbivory · Pinus banksiana
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“the jack pine budworm, Choristoneura pinus”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 53
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Choristoneura pinus (jack pine budworm) is a well-documented defoliating Lepidopteran pest of Pinus banksiana; source quote naming confirms correct species-host pairing.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Choristoneura pinus is a well-documented lepidopteran defoliator of Pinus banksiana; larval feeding on buds/needles causing high-severity losses is taxonomically and ecologically consistent.”
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