Claim · #6492151
Manihot esculenta · pest pressure · Zonocerus variegatus
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“severe damage done to an isolated cassava crop by the variegated grasshopper after all other crops harvested”
- Authors
- Altieri M.A., Farrell J.G., Hecht S.B., Liebman M., Magdoff F., Murphy B., Norgaard R.B., Sikor T.O.
- Year
- 1995
- Publication
- CRC Press / Westview Press
- Page
- 120
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Zonocerus variegatus is a well-documented polyphagous grasshopper pest in West Africa that concentrates on cassava post-harvest; source quote directly supports the mechanism and effect direction.”
- horticulturist · plausible
“Zonocerus variegatus is a well-documented polyphagous grasshopper pest in West Africa that concentrates on cassava as a late-season alternative host after other crops are cleared.”
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