ARIZONA COOPERATIVE E TENSION The American Hornet Moth in the
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Abstract
The American hornet moth, Sesia tibialis, is a serious pest of several species of poplars and willows in the higher elevations of northern Arizona. Aspen are a particularly favorite host. Range Widely found throughout much of southern Canada, and the northern United States including the states of the southern Rocky Mountains and California. Description Unlike the bark beetles that infest the ponderosa pine of northern Arizona, these pests are a lepidopterous insect. The insect order, Lepidoptera, are the moths and butterflies. The clear wing moths, a common name for this type of moth, are easily confused with other insects. The larvae look similar to roundheaded, wood-boring beetle larvae and the adults resemble wasps and hornets. Adults are about one inch long and are wasp-like in appearance. They are black with yellow stripes and accents, and with clear wings (fig.1). Hence the confusion with wasps and hornets. The adult emerges from an infested tree in the late spring through early summer by boring a ⁄ inch hole near the base of the tree. As the adult exits, a telltale brown paper-like pupal case will be left protruding from the tree (fig.2). After mating females deposit 200-600 eggs in the cracks and crevices of the host trees. Adults only live for four to ten days. Eggs are oval and light to medium brown. The surface of the egg has a net like appearance. At hatching the larva is ⁄ inch long. Larvae are offwhite in color, and grow to 1⁄ inches long with a black head (fig. 3). Larva have poorly developed crochets on the abdominal prolegs. When the larvae mature they form a two inch long by half inch diameter cocoon from the wood chips (fig.4). The larvae spend two years in the tree. Damage The larvae of these moths damage the tree by boring into the wood of the tree. They form extensive tunnels generally
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.249 | 0.045 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".