Claim · #6492430
Cerotoma spp. · herbivory · Glycine max
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“foliage- and pod-feeding arthropods on soybean”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 79
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Cerotoma trifasciata (bean leaf beetle) is a well-documented coleopteran pest of Glycine max in the US, causing both foliage and pod damage with EILs consistent with published Midwestern IPM thresholds.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Cerotoma trifasciata (bean leaf beetle) is a well-documented coleopteran pest of soybean in the US; EIL thresholds cited (~20 beetles/row-m, 15% defoliation, 8-12% pod injury) align with published IPM guidelines.”
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