Claim · #6495022
Cassida rubiginosa · biocontrol · Cirsium arvense
biocontrol · effect: beneficial
preysOn GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Cassida rubiginosa Muller... Thistle tortoise beetle”
- 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
- 299
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Cassida rubiginosa is an established classical biocontrol agent of Cirsium arvense in North America with documented field defoliation and population-level thistle suppression.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Cassida rubiginosa (Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) larvae and adults feed exclusively on Cirsium and related Carduinae thistles; biocontrol role and chrysomelid defoliator mechanism are textbook-canonical.”
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