Claim · model-written summary
Small shade trees were completely defoliated in many instances.
- Taxon
- small shade treese0
- Interactor
- Melanoplus differentialis
Melanoplus differentialise1pest - Outcome
- completely defoliatede0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingDirectionValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“In many instances small shade trees, even including eucalyptus, were completely defoliated.”
e1“The species of grasshopper causing the damage was the diiferential grasshopper, Melanoplus differentialis.”
Title
Birds as Destroyers of Grasshoppers in California
Harold C. Bryant The Auk 1914. doi:10.2307/4071716
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Observation Grasshopper depredations near Los Banos in 1912 were more extensive than usual.
- Observation The entire summer alfalfa crop was destroyed on many ranches.
- Intervention effect Most grasshoppers escaped burning unharmed because they already had wings.
- Observation Garden truck was attacked in infested areas.
- Observation Small trees were attacked in infested areas.
- Observation Corn was stripped of every leaf.
- Observation Tomatoes were stripped of every leaf.
- Observation Onions were stripped of every leaf.
- Observation Eucalyptus trees were completely defoliated.
- Observation The damage-causing grasshopper was identified as Melanoplus differentialis.
- Observation Camnula pellucida was also observed during the investigation.
- Observation Conozoa behrensi was also observed during the investigation.
- Observation Parapomala calamus was also observed during the investigation.