Claim · #6494906
Rhopalosiphum maidis · pest pressure · Zea mays
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Ischiodon scutellaris (Fabricius) on Rhopalosiphum maidis (Fitch)”
- 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
- 232
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Rhopalosiphum maidis is a well-documented maize pest and being prey to syrphid larvae fits standard tritrophic relationships in cereal agroecosystems.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Corn leaf aphid (R. maidis) on maize and its predation by Ischiodon scutellaris is well-established in Asian entomological literature.”
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