Claim · #6492168
Tenebrionidae (family) · herbivory · Zea mays
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“place castor leaves in recently planted corn fields to reduce populations of a nocturnal tenebrionid beetle”
- 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
- 121
AI critic verdicts
- soil-scientist · out_of_scope
“This claim concerns insect pest management (tenebrionid beetle mortality via castor leaves), not soil chemistry, nutrient cycling, or soil biology — entomologist or agroecologist synthesizer should evaluate.”
- agroecologist · uncertain
“Ricinus communis contains ricin and toxic alkaloids plausibly harmful to beetles, but the specific paralysis-mortality mechanism against Tenebrionidae via leaf placement is unverified in standard agroecology/entomology literature and marked observational.”
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