Claim · #6494806
Trialeurodes vaporariorum · pest pressure · Solanum lycopersicum
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“two key pests in greenhouses; whitefly (Trialeurodes vaporarium)”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 315
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Greenhouse whitefly is a top key pest of protected tomato and cucumber, especially in Dutch glasshouse systems; severity and year-round timing fit greenhouse epidemiology.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Trialeurodes vaporariorum (Aleyrodidae) is the canonical greenhouse Solanaceae/Cucurbitaceae pest; Encarsia formosa biocontrol in Dutch tomato is the historical exemplar.”
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