Claim · #6495634
Ophiomyia simplex · herbivory · Asparagus officinalis
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“The asparagus miner is reported in Florida, Texas, Washington, and California”
- Source
- Commercial Vegetable Production in Hawaii
- Authors
- Krauss F.G.
- Year
- 1932
- Publication
- University of Hawaii Agricultural Extension Service Bulletin No. 16
- Page
- 59
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Ophiomyia simplex is the recognized asparagus miner; stem mining matches the species' biology.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Ophiomyia simplex (Agromyzidae) larvae mine asparagus stems — taxonomy and damage type match.”
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