Claim · #6735058
Popillia japonica · herbivory · Zea mays
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Corn, Field ... Japanese Beetles”
- Authors
- University of Guam Cooperative Extension & Outreach
- Year
- 2024
- Publication
- University of Guam Cooperative Extension & Outreach
- Page
- 145
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Popillia japonica is a polyphagous scarab beetle; adults skeletonize many crops including corn. Herbivory on leaf is biologically reasonable.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Japanese beetle adults feed on corn foliage; well-documented polyphagous pest. Direction and life stage assignment plausible.”
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