Claim · #6492375
Phenacoccus manihoti · pest pressure · Manihot esculenta
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“in dry years, however, when water stress affected photosynthesis, losses were higher and were compounded by higher mealybug populations”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 61
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Source quote directly supports dry-season severity amplification; Phenacoccus manihoti as a high-severity cassava pest is well-documented in agroecological literature, and water-stress compounding herbivory is biologically consistent.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Phenacoccus manihoti is the well-documented cassava mealybug; dry-season population surges compounding water-stress yield losses is consistent with known biology and source quote.”
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