Claim · #6494803
Bemisia tabaci · pest pressure · Gossypium hirsutum
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Bemisia tabaci”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 311
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Bemisia tabaci is a globally distributed cotton pest causing direct phloem-feeding damage plus virus vectoring (e.g. CLCuV); high severity warranted.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Tobacco/silverleaf whitefly (Aleyrodidae) is a key cotton pest worldwide via direct feeding, honeydew/sooty mold, and begomovirus transmission.”
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