Claim · #6493633
Bemisia tabaci · pest pressure · Cucurbitaceae (family)
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“sweetpotato whitefly overwinters on desert weeds, colonizes cucurbits in January and February”
- Authors
- Pedigo L.P., Rice M.E.
- Year
- 2009
- Publication
- Pearson Prentice Hall
- Page
- 555
AI critic verdicts
- entomologist · plausible
“Bemisia tabaci overwintering on desert weeds and early-season colonization of cucurbits in California's desert valleys is well-documented in IPM literature.”
- agroecologist · plausible
“Bemisia tabaci overwintering on desert weeds and early-season cucurbit colonization in California's desert Southwest is well-documented regional IPM literature; mechanism and seasonal timing are biologically consistent.”
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