Claim · #6493486
Medicago sativa · pest pressure · Glycine max
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Lacking suitable habitat after alfalfa harvest, leafhoppers migrate into soybeans”
- Authors
- Pedigo L.P., Rice M.E.
- Year
- 2009
- Publication
- Pearson Prentice Hall
- Page
- 262
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Empoasca fabae migration from cut alfalfa into adjacent crops including soybean is well-documented; the mechanism, direction, and hopperburn injury are biologically consistent.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Empoasca fabae mass migration from clipped alfalfa into adjacent soybean causing hopperburn is well-documented IPM literature in the US Midwest.”
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