Claim · #6492172
Cylas formicarius · pest pressure · Ipomoea batatas
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“ants move underground, where they encounter the sweet-potato weevils and prey on them”
- Authors
- Vandermeer J.H.
- Year
- 2011
- Publication
- Jones and Bartlett Publishers
- Page
- 16
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Cylas formicarius damages sweet potato tubers underground; Pheidole megacephala as a predatory ant preying on soil/tuber-dwelling weevils is biologically consistent with the source quote.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Cylas formicarius infests sweet potato tubers/stems underground; Pheidole megacephala is a known soil-foraging predatory ant, and predation on weevil larvae/adults in soil is biologically consistent with the source quote.”
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