Claim · #6495981
Sorghum bicolor · provides alternative prey · Hippodamia convergens
provides alternative prey · effect: beneficial
interactsWith GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“general influx of generalist predators ... from sorghum to cotton”
- Source
- Farmscaping to Enhance Biological Control
- Authors
- Dufour R.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- ATTRA / NCAT Pest Management Systems Guide
- Page
- 33
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Sorghum-cotton spillover of generalist predators including Hippodamia convergens is a documented Texas IPM pattern.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Convergent lady beetle movement from sorghum refuges into adjacent cotton tracking aphid prey is well-attested in Texas High Plains entomology.”
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