Claim · #6495357
Bemisia tabaci · pest pressure · Solanum lycopersicum
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Leafhoppers Thrips Whiteflies 8-12 oz/A”
- Authors
- University of Guam Cooperative Extension & Outreach
- Year
- 2024
- Publication
- University of Guam Cooperative Extension & Outreach
- Page
- 14
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Bemisia tabaci on tomato is a major globally documented pest causing direct feeding damage and vectoring TYLCV; Guam is within its tropical range.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Bemisia tabaci is a textbook tomato whitefly pest; severity 'high' is appropriate given direct feeding plus begomovirus transmission. Source quote thin but consistent with extension-bulletin format.”
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