Claim · #6494797
Cerotoma trifurcata · herbivory · Glycine max
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“the bean leaf beetle Cerotoma trifurcata (Pedigo and Zeiss, 1996)”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 302
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Bean leaf beetle is a recognized soybean pest in U.S. systems with strong planting-date sensitivity (Pedigo & Zeiss 1996 is a canonical reference).”
- entomologist · plausible
“Cerotoma trifurcata (Chrysomelidae) defoliates seedling/vegetative soybean and vectors bean pod mottle virus; planting-date manipulation is a standard cultural control.”
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