Claim · #6494794
Aphis fabae · pest pressure · Vicia faba
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“desert locust, black bean aphid, housefly and black cutworm as examples of r pests”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 281
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Aphis fabae is a textbook r-strategist polyphage on Vicia faba with rapid parthenogenetic buildup matching the source quote framing.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Black bean aphid is the canonical r-selected pest example; high reproductive rate, short generation time, phloem feeding on V. faba shoots are well-established.”
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