Claim · #6495132
Trialeurodes vaporariorum · pest pressure · Solanum lycopersicum
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“preventing the establishment of the greenhouse whitefly (Trialeurodes vaporariorum)”
- Authors
- Das B.C., et al.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Parasitoids in Pest Management (book chapter: Aphidiinae Parasitoids)
- Page
- 304
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Trialeurodes vaporariorum is the canonical greenhouse whitefly pest of protected tomato globally, and Encarsia formosa is the primary commercial parasitoid used against it.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Greenhouse whitefly on tomato controlled by Encarsia formosa is the foundational case study for inundative biocontrol in protected horticulture.”
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