Claim · #6493345
Paracoccus marginatus · pest pressure · Morus spp.
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“serious threat to papaya, cassava and mulberry cultivation”
- Authors
- Das B.C., et al.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Parasitoids in Pest Management (book chapter: Aphidiinae Parasitoids)
- Page
- 139
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Paracoccus marginatus is a documented polyphagous mealybug pest; its threat to cassava in India is consistent with source quote listing cassava among affected crops.”
- horticulturist · out_of_scope
“This is a pest-pressure interaction claim involving an insect pest on a crop — pest ecology, not crop-trait, polyculture geometry, or agroforestry layout. Entomologist or agroecologist synthesizer should evaluate.”
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