Claim · #6493512
Medicago sativa · pest pressure · Glycine max
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“potato leafhoppers... may move into soybean when alfalfa is clipped for hay”
- Authors
- Pedigo L.P., Rice M.E.
- Year
- 2009
- Publication
- Pearson Prentice Hall
- Page
- 366
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Empoasca fabae dispersal from cut alfalfa into adjacent crops is well-documented IPM literature; mechanism, direction, and host assignments are all biologically consistent.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Empoasca fabae dispersal from cut alfalfa into adjacent crops is well-documented; soybean is a known host, consistent with source quote and mechanism.”
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