Claim · #6495209
Lepidoptera (order) · herbivory · Plantae
herbivory · effect: context_dependent
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“butterfly flight dates advancing with spring warming across western North America”
- Authors
- Halsch C.A., Shapiro A.M., Fordyce J.A., Nice C.C., Thorne J.H., Waetjen D.P., Forister M.L.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Lepidopteran flight-date advance with spring warming is widely documented (Forister, Parmesan); host-plant phenological mismatch is a recognized agroecological consequence.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Advance of butterfly/moth flight dates under warming is one of the best-replicated insect climate-change signals; mismatch with larval host phenology is biologically grounded.”
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