Claim · #6493004
Hypera postica · pest pressure · Medicago sativa
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“weevils allowed to feed until 95% of plants destroyed”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 150
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Hypera postica is the well-established primary weevil pest of Medicago sativa foliage; the source quote describing resistance screening methodology supports the damage_type and affected_part fields.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Hypera postica is a well-documented defoliating pest of Medicago sativa; 95% plant destruction in a no-choice laboratory bioassay for resistance screening is biologically consistent.”
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