Claim · #6492720
Epicauta pennsylvanica · herbivory · Beta vulgaris
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“adult blister beetles feed on foliage of several host plants, including alfalfa, soybean, sugar beet”
- Authors
- Pedigo L.P.
- Year
- 2002
- Publication
- Prentice Hall / Pearson Education
- Page
- 168
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Source quote directly supports the structured fields; adult Epicauta spp. are known polyphagous foliage feeders, and sugar beet is a plausible host.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Adult Epicauta pennsylvanica are known folivores on broadleaf crops; source quote directly supports sugar beet as a host, and adult stage assignment is correct (larvae are parasitoids of grasshopper eggs).”
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