Claim · #6495153
Diatraea saccharalis · herbivory · Saccharum officinarum
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“to control D. Saccharalis and other lepidopterous sugarcane borers”
- Authors
- Das B.C., et al.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Parasitoids in Pest Management (book chapter: Aphidiinae Parasitoids)
- Page
- 322
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Diatraea saccharalis is the canonical sugarcane stalk borer in the Neotropics, and Lydella (diatraeae/minense) augmentative releases in Cuba are documented in the classical biocontrol literature.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Pyralid stalk borer attacking Saccharum stems matches D. saccharalis biology exactly; lepidopteran, stem-boring herbivory, and Cuban biocontrol context all check out.”
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