Claim · #6492378
Plathypena scabra · herbivory · Glycine max
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“consume on average 54 cm² of soybean leaves in order to complete development”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 50
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Plathypena scabra (green clover worm) is a well-documented defoliating pest of soybean; larval leaf consumption of ~54 cm² is biologically consistent with known noctuidae feeding rates.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Plathypena scabra (green clover worm) larvae are well-documented soybean defoliators; 54 cm² per larva for full development is biologically consistent with known Noctuidae leaf consumption rates.”
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