Claim · #6495128
Ceratovacuna lanigera · pest pressure · Saccharum officinarum
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“the sugarcane woolly aphid, Ceratovacuna lanigera”
- Authors
- Das B.C., et al.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Parasitoids in Pest Management (book chapter: Aphidiinae Parasitoids)
- Page
- 300
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Ceratovacuna lanigera (sugarcane woolly aphid) is a well-known and economically severe foliar pest of Saccharum officinarum in India and South-East Asia.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Ceratovacuna lanigera (Hemiptera: Aphididae: Hormaphidinae) is a major sugarcane woolly aphid causing severe leaf damage in India, especially after its 2002 outbreak in Karnataka and Maharashtra.”
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