Claim · #6494779
Atherigona soccata · herbivory · Sorghum bicolor
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“density of sorghum seedlings affects the number of eggs that are laid by the sorghum shootfly”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Density-dependent oviposition by Atherigona soccata on sorghum seedlings with a yield-density tradeoff is a well-documented African sorghum IPM finding consistent with classic plant-density/pest-load theory.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Atherigona soccata is the canonical sorghum shootfly attacking seedling whorls, and per-plant egg load declining with stand density (resource-dilution / visual-host-finding) is reported in the Indian and African shootfly literature.”
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