Claim · #6493367
Pyrilla perpusilla · pest pressure · Zea mays
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“widely distributed on various agricultural crops such as wheat, barley, oats, maize”
- Authors
- Das B.C., et al.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Parasitoids in Pest Management (book chapter: Aphidiinae Parasitoids)
- Page
- 154
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Pyrilla perpusilla (sugarcane leafhopper, Lophopidae) is documented in Indian literature as spreading to wheat, barley, maize, and grasses during outbreaks; source quote supports multi-host feeding claim.”
- horticulturist · out_of_scope
“This claim concerns an insect pest's host range on crops — a pest/host interaction, not a plant trait, polyculture geometry, or agroforestry layout decision.”
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