Claim · #6494998
Nesidiocoris tenuis · biocontrol · Bemisia tabaci
biocontrol · effect: beneficial
preysOn GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“particularly against tobacco whitefly (Bemisia tabaci)”
- 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
- 271
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Nesidiocoris tenuis is the dominant mirid biocontrol against Bemisia tabaci in Mediterranean protected tomato; established in commercial IPM (Calvo, Urbaneja).”
- entomologist · plausible
“Predation on tobacco whitefly is the primary documented function of N. tenuis in Mediterranean tomato systems; standard textbook biocontrol pairing.”
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