Claim · #6492279
Cosmopolites sordidus · pest pressure · Musa spp.
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“three- to four-fold increases in weevil populations under mulch treatments”
- Authors
- Buck L.E., Lassoie J.P., Fernandes E.C.M.
- Year
- 1999
- Publication
- CRC Press / Lewis Publishers
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Cosmopolites sordidus damaging Musa corms is well-established; mulch creating favorable humid microhabitats boosting weevil populations 3–4x is biologically consistent with published IPM literature.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Cosmopolites sordidus is the well-documented banana corm weevil; mulch providing moisture/habitat refugia increasing populations 3–4× is biologically consistent with known ecology.”
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