Claim · #6492819
Colias eurytheme · pest pressure · Medicago sativa
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“monitored 10,000 acres of alfalfa for the alfalfa caterpillar Colias eurythene”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 4
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Colias eurytheme larvae are well-documented defoliators of Medicago sativa in California; host-plant feeding by lepidopteran larva as mechanism is biologically correct.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Colias eurytheme larvae are well-documented alfalfa pests in California; the mechanism (lepidopteran larval feeding on host plant) and harmful direction are biologically correct.”
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