Claim · #6492900
Metopolophium dirhodum · pest pressure · Triticum aestivum
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“M. dirhodum has been shown to reduce overall grain weight by as much as 7%”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 51
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“M. dirhodum is a well-documented cereal aphid feeding on wheat flag leaves; 7% grain weight reduction from phloem feeding aligns with published UK field studies.”
- soil-scientist · out_of_scope
“This is an aphid herbivory/crop-damage claim; no soil, nutrient-cycling, or soil-organism elements trigger my specialty. An entomologist or crop-scientist should evaluate it.”
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