Claim · #6492906
Phenacoccus manihoti · pest pressure · Manihot esculenta
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“In dry years, losses were higher and were compounded by higher mealybug populations”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 61
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Phenacoccus manihoti is the well-documented cassava mealybug; dry-season population surges and yield losses are canonical in IPM/agroecology literature, consistent with the source quote.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Phenacoccus manihoti is a well-documented cassava pest (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae); dry-season population surges and associated yield losses are consistent with established biology and IPM literature.”
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