Claim · #6492376
Mononychellus tanajoa · pest pressure · Manihot esculenta
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“with the green mite, where the damaging effects of drought on yield were compounded by mite feeding”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 62
AI critic verdicts
- entomologist · plausible
“Mononychellus tanajoa is a well-documented tetranychid mite pest of cassava leaves, with drought-compounded damage widely reported in literature; source quote directly supports the structured fields.”
- agroecologist · plausible
“Mononychellus tanajoa is the well-documented cassava green mite; dry-season severity and compounded drought-mite yield loss are consistent with established IPM literature.”
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