Claim · #6492930
Plathypena scabra · herbivory · Glycine max
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“25-30 larvae (>1 cm)/row m + 15% defoliation”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 79
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Plathypena scabra (green cloverworm) is a well-documented foliage-feeding lepidopteran pest of soybean in the US; the EIL thresholds and R3–R5 staging align with standard IPM literature.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Plathypena scabra (green cloverworm) is a known foliage-feeding lepidopteran pest of soybean; larval EIL thresholds of 25-30 larvae >1cm per row meter combined with defoliation percentage are consistent with established US soybean IPM guidelines.”
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