Claim · #6492171
Musa spp. · biocontrol · Ipomoea batatas
biocontrol · effect: beneficial
preysOn GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“banana stems, with ant nests inside, are placed along rows of newly planted sweet potatoes”
- Authors
- Vandermeer J.H.
- Year
- 2011
- Publication
- Jones and Bartlett Publishers
- Page
- 16
AI critic verdicts
- entomologist · plausible
“Pheidole megacephala is a documented predatory ant; using banana stems as delivery vehicles for ant colonies to prey on Cylas formicarius weevils in Cuban sweet potato is a recognized traditional IPM practice.”
- agroecologist · plausible
“Pheidole megacephala is a documented predatory ant used in Cuban IPM; using banana stem refugia to deploy ant colonies against Cylas weevils is a recorded field practice consistent with tritrophic biocontrol logic.”
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