Claim · #6494822
Tuta absoluta · herbivory · Solanum lycopersicum
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“controlling thrips, leaf miners, aphids, spider mites, Tuta absoluta”
- 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
- 109
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Tuta absoluta is the canonical invasive Gelechiidae pest of tomato in the Mediterranean since 2006 (Desneux et al. 2010), with high economic severity well-established.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Tuta absoluta (now Phthorimaea absoluta) is universally documented as a key lepidopteran pest of Solanum lycopersicum across Mediterranean and southern European production.”
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