Claim · #6492567
Frankliniella tritici · herbivory · Triticum aestivum
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“flower thrips, Frankliniella tritici, attacking flowers, wheat, strawberries”
- Authors
- Pedigo L.P.
- Year
- 2002
- Publication
- Prentice Hall / Pearson Education
- Page
- 108
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Frankliniella tritici is a documented flower-feeding thrips in the US, and wheat flowering-stage herbivory on floral tissue is biologically consistent with the source quote.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Frankliniella tritici is a known thrips pest of wheat flowers and strawberries in the US; herbivory on flowers at flowering stage is biologically consistent.”
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