Claim · #6493598
Medicago sativa · pest pressure · Glycine max
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“beetles move from alfalfa to soybean when the soybean emerge”
- Authors
- Pedigo L.P., Rice M.E.
- Year
- 2009
- Publication
- Pearson Prentice Hall
- Page
- 545
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Cerotoma trifurcata using alfalfa as an alternative host and moving to soybean at emergence/cutting is well-documented in Midwestern US IPM literature; mechanism and direction are correct.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Cerotoma trifurcata adults are well-documented to use alfalfa as a refuge and disperse to soybean at emergence/cutting; interaction direction and mechanism are entomologically consistent.”
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