Claim · #6493518
Phenacoccus manihoti · pest pressure · Manihot esculenta
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“cassava mealybug caused up to 80 percent losses... by feeding on the growing tips”
- Authors
- Pedigo L.P., Rice M.E.
- Year
- 2009
- Publication
- Pearson Prentice Hall
- Page
- 334
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Phenacoccus manihoti is the well-documented cassava mealybug; 80% yield losses from growing-tip feeding causing stunting in sub-Saharan Africa is consistent with established literature.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Phenacoccus manihoti is a well-documented hemipteran pest of cassava causing severe losses via phloem-feeding on apical meristems; 80% loss figures are consistent with historical Sub-Saharan Africa outbreak records.”
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