Claim · #6493467
Heliothis virescens · herbivory · Gossypium hirsutum
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“considerable evasion from populations of corn earworm and tobacco budworm”
- Authors
- Pedigo L.P., Rice M.E.
- Year
- 2009
- Publication
- Pearson Prentice Hall
- Page
- 452
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Heliothis virescens is a well-documented high-severity cotton pest in the US; short-season variety evasion is an established IPM strategy supported by the source quote.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Heliothis virescens is a well-documented major pest of Gossypium hirsutum; short-season cotton as phenological evasion from Heliothis/Helicoverpa is established IPM literature, and source quote directly supports the evasion claim.”
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