AgroEco

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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