Claim · #6493587
Anthonomus grandis · herbivory · Gossypium hirsutum
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“tests with the boll weevil showing promise involved pheromone traps placed in strips”
- Authors
- Pedigo L.P., Rice M.E.
- Year
- 2009
- Publication
- Pearson Prentice Hall
- Page
- 493
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Anthonomus grandis pheromone (grandlure) mass-trapping in early-planted trap strips is a well-documented IPM strategy in US cotton; source quote supports the structured fields.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Anthonomus grandis is well-documented to aggregate to grandlure (pheromone) traps; mass-trapping in early-planted trap strips is a recognized IPM tactic consistent with the source quote.”
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