Claim · #6494823
Bemisia tabaci · pest pressure · Solanum lycopersicum
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Nesidiocoris tenuis was reported to feed on whitefly in tomato ecosystem in India”
- 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
“Bemisia tabaci is a globally established whitefly pest of tomato with documented direct feeding damage and TYLCV vector role; mirid biocontrol is standard practice.”
- entomologist · plausible
“B. tabaci as a major tomato pest and N. tenuis whitefly predation in Indian tomato systems are both confirmed in published Indian biocontrol literature (Ballal, Gupta).”
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