Claim · #6493369
Diatraea saccharalis · pest pressure · Saccharum officinarum
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“locate and parasitize this stem borer inside galleries within sugarcane stems”
- Authors
- Das B.C., et al.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Parasitoids in Pest Management (book chapter: Aphidiinae Parasitoids)
- Page
- 154
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Tetrastichus howardi is a documented larval-pupal parasitoid of Diatraea saccharalis in sugarcane stems; source quote directly supports gallery-location behavior.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Tetrastichus howardi is a documented larval/pupal endoparasitoid of Diatraea saccharalis in sugarcane stems; source quote directly supports the structured claim.”
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