Claim · model-written summary
Higher initial proportions of P. truncatus led to significantly greater maize damage than equal or higher S. zeamais proportions.
- Interactor
- P. truncatus
Prostephanus truncatuse0pest - Second interactor
- S. zeamais
Sitophilus zeamaise0pest - Outcome
- maize damagee0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- equal or higher proportions of S. zeamaise0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.



Verbatim
e0“A higher proportion of P. truncatus in the initial infestation population led to significantly higher (≤0.05) maize damage compared to equal or higher proportions of S. zeamais”
Title
Rhodes H. Makundi; Ntuli N. Swila; Robert N. Misangu; et al. Archives of Phytopathology and Plant Protection 2010. doi:10.1080/03235400802425804
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation P. truncatus caused 23.3% maize damage versus 6.4% from S. zeamais.
- Observation P. truncatus caused 12.7% weight loss versus 6.7% from S. zeamais.
- Observation S. zeamais populations grew above P. truncatus populations regardless of initial weevil number.
- Association Unimproved storage structures had maize losses above 80%, versus below 2.5% in improved structures.
- Mechanism The authors infer interspecific competition influenced infestation dynamics, damage and weight loss.
- Observation The first two storage months were critical for buildup of damaging insect populations.