Claim · #6492941
Earias vittella · pest pressure · Gossypium hirsutum
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Composite thresholds…Earias vittelli…in cotton (Keerthisinghe, 1982)”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 78
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Earias vittella is a well-documented spiny bollworm pest of Gossypium hirsutum; composite action thresholds for this species in cotton IPM are biologically consistent with the source quote.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Earias vittella is a well-documented spiny bollworm pest of Gossypium hirsutum; composite economic thresholds for bollworm complexes in cotton are standard IPM practice, consistent with the source quote.”
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