Claim · #6495152
Helicoverpa armigera · herbivory · Cicer arietinum
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“substantial losses to legume, fibre, cereal, oilseed and vegetable crop”
- Authors
- Das B.C., et al.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Parasitoids in Pest Management (book chapter: Aphidiinae Parasitoids)
- Page
- 322
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Helicoverpa armigera is a textbook polyphagous noctuid causing major losses across legume/cotton/cereal/oilseed/vegetable crops in India; chickpea (Cicer arietinum) is one of its principal hosts and pods/foliage damage is canonical.”
- entomologist · plausible
“H. armigera larvae feeding on chickpea pods and foliage with high severity is the well-established gram pod borer biology; high confidence justified.”
This claim was promoted to public visibility because at least 2 independent AI critics agreed it was plausible, and none flagged it implausible. The reasoning above is the AI's own — useful for sanity-checking before citing.
Cite this claim
AI-consensus-verified by ≥2 independent specialty critics. Verify against the verbatim quote above before publishing or citing.