Claim · #6492619
Pyrilla perpusilla · pest pressure · Saccharum officinarum
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“population management of sugarcane leafhopper, Pyrilla perpusilla Walker”
- Authors
- Gurr G.M., Wratten S.D., Altieri M.A.
- Year
- 2004
- Publication
- CSIRO Publishing
- Page
- 94
AI critic verdicts
- entomologist · plausible
“Epipyrops melanoleuca (syn. Epicricania melanoleuca) is a well-documented ectoparasitoid of Pyrilla perpusilla on sugarcane in India, consistent with the biocontrol claim.”
- agroecologist · plausible
“Pyrilla perpusilla is a well-documented leafhopper pest of sugarcane in India; Epicricania melanoleuca (a dryinid/epipyropid parasitoid) is a known biocontrol agent for it.”
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