Claim · #6492939
Epiphyas postvittana · pest pressure · Malus domestica
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Epiphyas postvittana in top fruit (Valentine et al., 1996)”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 78
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Epiphyas postvittana (light brown apple moth) is a well-documented tortricid pest of Malus domestica with established economic thresholds in top fruit IPM programs.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Epiphyas postvittana (LBAM) is a well-documented tortricid pest of Malus domestica with established IPM thresholds in top fruit systems, consistent with the claim.”
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