Claim · #6494955
Oligonychus pratensis · herbivory · Sorghum bicolor
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Oligonychus pratensis (Banks), a pest of corn, sorghum, and wheat”
- Authors
- Bhagyasree S.N., Anokhe Archana, Shashank P.R., Patel C.H.
- Year
- 2022
- Publication
- Insect Predators in Pest Management (CRC Press / Taylor & Francis)
- Page
- 266
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Banks grass mite (Oligonychus pratensis) is a well-documented pest of corn under hot/dry conditions, particularly in the Great Plains and irrigated production systems.”
- entomologist · plausible
“O. pratensis is a textbook tetranychid pest of Zea mays; the source quote names corn explicitly among its host range.”
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