Claim · #6493222
Metopolophium dirhodum · pest pressure · Hordeum vulgare
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“occurs widely in eastern Australia on barley and oats”
- Authors
- Das B.C., et al.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Parasitoids in Pest Management (book chapter: Aphidiinae Parasitoids)
- Page
- 95
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Metopolophium dirhodum is a well-documented cereal aphid and confirmed BYDV vector on barley; source quote directly supports the crop-pest association.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Metopolophium dirhodum is a well-documented cereal aphid, known BYDV vector on Hordeum vulgare in Australia; source quote supports barley host association.”
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