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Cicadellidae (family) · pest pressure · Dioscorea sp.

pest pressure · effect: harmful

eats GloBI relation

Verbatim source quote

“Yam … Leafhoppers”
Authors
University of Guam Cooperative Extension & Outreach
Year
2024
Publication
University of Guam Cooperative Extension & Outreach
Page
209

AI critic verdicts

  • agroecologist · plausible

    “Cicadellidae are broadly polyphagous sap-feeders and known yam pests; family-level pest-index listing is biologically reasonable.”

  • horticulturist · plausible

    “Leafhoppers are routinely recorded as yam foliar pests in tropical Pacific horticulture; standard regional pest-index entry.”

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