AgroEco

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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