Claim · #6495976
Acacia koa · provides refuge · Silvanidae
provides refuge · effect: beneficial
interactsWith GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“koa (Acacia koa) are potential host plants of flat bark beetles”
- Source
- An Introduction to the Square-Necked Grain Beetle as a Predator of Coffee Berry Borer in Hawai'i
- Authors
- Kawabata A., Follett P., Wright M., Brill E., Curtiss R.T.
- Year
- 2016
- Publication
- UH-CTAHR Insect Pests IP-40
- Page
- 2
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Acacia koa hosting Silvanidae as refuge is plausible; quote directly supports the inferred relationship.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Predatory flat bark beetles plausibly use koa as host plant; family-level claim with 'potential' framing is appropriate.”
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