Claim · #6492100
Schizaphis graminum · pest pressure · Sorghum bicolor
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“greenbugs attacked the U.S. sorghum crop, causing $100 million in damage”
- Source
- Agroecology: Leading the Transformation to a Just and Sustainable Food System, Fourth Edition
- Authors
- Gliessman S.R., Méndez V.E., Izzo V.M., Engles E.W.
- Year
- 2023
- Publication
- CRC Press / Taylor & Francis Group
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Schizaphis graminum (greenbug) is a well-documented high-severity aphid pest of Sorghum bicolor in the US; the 1968 outbreak causing ~$100M damage is historically recorded.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Schizaphis graminum (greenbug) is a well-documented high-severity aphid pest of Sorghum bicolor in the US; the 1968 outbreak causing ~$100M damage is a historically cited event in IPM literature.”
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