Claim · #6495850
Lyonetia clerkella · herbivory · Malus domestica
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“larva damages the leaf tissues and feeds between upper and lower epidermis”
- Source
- Insect-Pest Complex and Integrated Pest Management on Apple in Jammu and Kashmir, India
- Authors
- Hussain B., Buhroo A.A., War A.R., Sheerwani A.
- Year
- 2017
- Publication
- Indian Apple: Production and Value Chain Analysis (Chapter 17)
- Page
- 277
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Lyonetia clerkella leaf-mining Lepidoptera larvae on apple is correct; low impact class reasonable for leaf miners.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Lyonetiid larval epidermal mining is accurate; stage (larva) correctly specified, affected part (leaf) matches.”
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