Claim · #6495973
Sorghum bicolor · attracts natural enemy · Insecta
attracts natural enemy · effect: beneficial
interactsWith GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“cotton bollworms being controlled by predators in sorghum plots adjacent to cotton”
- Source
- Companion Planting & Botanical Pesticides: Concepts & Resources
- Authors
- Kuepper G., Dodson M., Duncan J.
- Year
- 2016
- Publication
- ATTRA / National Center for Appropriate Technology IP125
- Page
- 5
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Sorghum strip-cropping adjacent to cotton is a well-documented natural-enemy refuge that supplies generalist predators suppressing Helicoverpa bollworm.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Sorghum harbors generalist predators (Orius, Geocoris, Chrysoperla, coccinellids) that disperse into cotton and prey on Helicoverpa eggs/larvae; classic biocontrol pattern.”
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