Claim · model-written summary
Feeding reached the 1% downgrading threshold after 3 h.
- Taxon
- faba bean
Vicia fabat0 - Outcome
- downgrading thresholde0
- Value
- 1%e0
- Qualifier
- after only 3 h of feedinge0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

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Verbatim
e0“reaching the Canadian Grain Commission's 1% downgrading threshold after only 3 h of feeding”
t0“Lygus (Hemiptera: Miridae) on faba bean”
Title
Teresa Aguiar-Cordero; Sean Michael Prager Journal of Economic Entomology 2026. doi:10.1093/jee/toag071
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- Association Waveform type significantly affected feeding duration.
- Observation Staining found salivary deposits in a limited number of pods and seeds, primarily from males.