Claim · #6494788
Ips typographus · herbivory · Picea abies
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“captured 7.4 billion beetles in 2 years”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“The 1979-1980 Norwegian Ips typographus mass-trapping campaign is a famous large-scale forest-IPM case (~600,000 traps, ~7 billion beetles) routinely cited in pest-management texts.”
- entomologist · plausible
“The aggregation pheromone of Ips typographus (ipsdienol/cis-verbenol/2-methyl-3-buten-1-ol blend) and the Norwegian/Swedish 1979-80 mass-trapping totals (~7 billion beetles) are accurately reported in the bark-beetle pheromone literature.”
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