Hypera postica 5 claims

species · family Curculionidae · animal · NCBI Taxonomy ↗

Common name: alfalfa weevil

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Hypera postica
Hypera posticaAfroBrazilian · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗
Observationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Hypera postica larvae occurred from mid-June to mid-August.

Taxon
Hypera posticaHypera posticae0
Interactor
Hypera posticaHypera posticae0pest
Outcome
were presente0
Qualifier
mid-June to mid-Auguste0

Verbatim

e0

“Hypera postica larvae, B. curculionis , and O. incertus were present from mid-June to mid-August.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 954–1051

Title

Seasonal abundance of key alfalfa (Fabaceae) seed production pests and their natural enemies in southern Alberta, Canada

Aldo F. Ríos Martínez; Michelle Reid; Carol M. Frost; et al. The Canadian Entomologist 2024. doi:10.4039/tce.2024.21

Other claims from this paper (7)
Associationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Hypera postica larvae abundance did not correlate with Bathyplectes curculionis in either year.

Taxon
H. posticaHypera posticae0
Interactor
H. posticaHypera posticae0pest
Outcome
correlationse0
Direction
noe0
Qualifier
either yeare0

Verbatim

e0

“we detected no correlations between H. postica larvae and its two parasitoids in either year.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1061–1154

Title

Seasonal abundance of key alfalfa (Fabaceae) seed production pests and their natural enemies in southern Alberta, Canada

Aldo F. Ríos Martínez; Michelle Reid; Carol M. Frost; et al. The Canadian Entomologist 2024. doi:10.4039/tce.2024.21

Other claims from this paper (7)
Associationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Hypera postica larvae abundance did not correlate with Oomyzus incertus in either year.

Taxon
H. posticaHypera posticae0
Interactor
H. posticaHypera posticae0pest
Outcome
correlationse0
Direction
noe0
Qualifier
either yeare0

Verbatim

e0

“we detected no correlations between H. postica larvae and its two parasitoids in either year.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1061–1154

Title

Seasonal abundance of key alfalfa (Fabaceae) seed production pests and their natural enemies in southern Alberta, Canada

Aldo F. Ríos Martínez; Michelle Reid; Carol M. Frost; et al. The Canadian Entomologist 2024. doi:10.4039/tce.2024.21

Other claims from this paper (7)
Associationobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Hypera postica larval numbers decreased with L. japonicus worker numbers on vetch in a field census.

Taxon
Hypera posticaHypera posticae0
Interactor
V. angustifoliae0host
Second interactor
L. japonicusLasius japonicuse0biocontrol_agent
Outcome
number of alfalfa weevil Hypera postica larvaee0
Direction
decreasede0
Setting
fielde0

Verbatim

e0

“In a field census, the number of alfalfa weevil Hypera postica larvae, which is the main herbivore on V. angustifolia, decreased with the number of L. japonicus workers.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 337–506

Title

The importance of the encounter rate between ants and herbivores and of ant aggressiveness against herbivores in herbivore exclusion by ants on Vicia angustifolia L. (Leguminosae) with extrafloral nectaries

Noboru Katayama; Nobuhiko Suzuki Applied Entomology and Zoology 2005. doi:10.1303/aez.2005.69

Other claims from this paper (4)
Recommendationauthor interpretationoriginal resultbasis n/a

Claim · model-written summary

The authors criticize visual-damage insecticide-treatment indexes at or below the moderate damage level, used for H. postica, as potential pesticide abuse.

Taxon
H. posticaHypera posticae3
Outcome
potential pesticide abusee3

Verbatim

e3

“From these findings, the visual-damage level insecticide-treatment indexes similar to in magnitude or less than our M category, which are commonly used at present for the closely-related species H. postica (Gyllenhall), are criticized in terms of potential pesticide abuse”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 504–776

Title

Visual Economic Thresholds and Potential Pesticide Abuse: Alfalfa Weevils,1an Example2

Warren R. Cothran; Charles G. Summers Environmental Entomology 1974. doi:10.1093/ee/3.6.891

Other claims from this paper (5)