Claim · #6493393
Lymantria dispar · herbivory · Quercus spp.
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“More than 500 species of trees are attacked by this pest”
- Authors
- Pedigo L.P., Rice M.E.
- Year
- 2009
- Publication
- Pearson Prentice Hall
- Page
- 213
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Lymantria dispar is a well-documented generalist defoliator with >500 host species; Quercus is its primary host, and repeated defoliation causing tree mortality is established in the literature.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Lymantria dispar larvae are well-documented defoliators of 500+ tree species including Quercus; larval stage correctly identified as the damaging stage.”
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