Claim · #6494820
Nesidiocoris tenuis · pest pressure · Solanum lycopersicum
pest pressure · effect: context_dependent
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“in the absence of prey, they may cause injury to plants and yield loss”
- Authors
- Bhagyasree S.N., Anokhe Archana, Shashank P.R., Patel C.H.
- Year
- 2022
- Publication
- Insect Predators in Pest Management (CRC Press / Taylor & Francis)
- Page
- 112
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Nesidiocoris tenuis zoophytophagy and prey-scarcity-driven phytotoxicity on tomato is well documented in IPM literature (Calvo et al. 2009; Sanchez 2009).”
- horticulturist · plausible
“Greenhouse tomato growers routinely manage N. tenuis releases against this exact context-dependent injury (apical necrotic rings, fruit-set loss) by maintaining alternate prey or banker plants.”
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