Claim · #6493008
Chilo partellus · pest pressure · Sorghum bicolor
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“climbing speed of Chilo partellus larvae on two sorghum cultivars”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 165
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Chilo partellus (spotted stalk borer) is a well-documented lepidopteran pest of Sorghum bicolor causing stem damage; larval climbing behavior on sorghum cultivars is biologically consistent.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Chilo partellus (spotted stalk borer) is a well-documented lepidopteran stem borer pest of Sorghum bicolor; larval climbing behavior on host stems is biologically consistent with pest entry into stalks.”
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