Claim · #6494760
Locustana pardalina · herbivory · multiple cereals
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“the brown locust (Locustana pardalina)”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Locustana pardalina is a major southern-African rangeland and cereal pest and a target of LUBILOSA-derived Metarhizium (Green Muscle) programmes.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Brown locust biology, host range on graminoid crops, and inclusion in Green Muscle development are standard acridid-pest knowledge.”
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