Claim · #6494870
Rhopalosiphum maidis · pest pressure · Zea mays
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Barley or Jowar, Zea mays (Maize)”
- Authors
- Bhagyasree S.N., Anokhe Archana, Shashank P.R., Patel C.H.
- Year
- 2022
- Publication
- Insect Predators in Pest Management (CRC Press / Taylor & Francis)
- Page
- 194
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Rhopalosiphum maidis is the dominant aphid pest of maize globally and a vector of barley yellow dwarf virus in cereal cropping systems.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Corn leaf aphid on Zea mays is a textbook pest record; the species epithet 'maidis' reflects this primary host.”
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