Claim · #6492932
Cerotoma spp. · herbivory · Glycine max
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“20 beetles/row m + 15% defoliation; 20-25 beetles/row m = 8-12% pod injury”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 79
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Cerotoma trifasciata (bean leaf beetle) is a well-documented coleopteran pest of soybean in the US, with EILs for foliage and pod damage at R3–R7 consistent with standard IPM thresholds cited in the source quote.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Cerotoma trifasciata (bean leaf beetle, Chrysomelidae) is a well-documented coleopteran pest of soybean in the US with established EILs for foliage and pod injury consistent with the quoted thresholds.”
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