Claim · #6496405
Rhabdoscelus obscurus · herbivory · Saccharum officinarum
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Hawaiian sugar cane, nectar-bearing plants in field margins improve the numbers and efficiency of the sugar cane weevil parasite”
- Source
- Manage Insects on Your Farm: A Guide to Ecological Strategies
- Authors
- Altieri M.A., Nicholls C.I., Fritz M.A.
- Year
- 2005
- Publication
- Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Handbook Series Book 7
- Page
- 26
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Hawaiian sugar cane weevil and tachinid parasitoid Lixophaga sphenophori is a foundational classical biocontrol case; nectar-resource subsidy enhancing parasitoid efficacy is mainstream agroecology. Quote supports nectar-margin claim.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Rhabdoscelus obscurus (Curculionidae) is the New Guinea sugarcane weevil established in Hawaii; stem-boring larval damage is correct. Lixophaga sphenophori (Tachinidae) is its documented parasitoid. All taxonomy and biology accurate.”
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