Claim · #6494481
Chaetocnema pulicaria · pest pressure · Zea mays
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“the corn flea beetle (Chaetocnema pulicaria)... most important vector of the bacteria”
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- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
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- 654
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Chaetocnema pulicaria is the well-established primary vector of Pantoea stewartii causing Stewart's wilt in Zea mays; source quote directly supports the structured fields.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Chaetocnema pulicaria as primary vector of Pantoea stewartii (Stewart's wilt bacterium) to Zea mays is well-established; source quote supports the structured fields.”
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