Claim · #6494776
Brevicoryne brassicae · herbivory · Brassica oleracea
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“to cauliflowers against Delia radicum, Brevicoryne brassica and Lepidoptera”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Mesh netting protects cauliflower from Brevicoryne brassicae colonization where mesh aperture excludes alate aphids — a documented and operationally used physical control.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Sufficiently fine exclusion netting blocks alate B. brassicae arrival on Brassica oleracea; standard physical-control entomological evidence.”
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