Claim · #6495625
Thysanoptera · herbivory · Vegetable crops
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“thrip”
- Source
- Commercial Vegetable Production in Hawaii
- Authors
- Krauss F.G.
- Year
- 1932
- Publication
- University of Hawaii Agricultural Extension Service Bulletin No. 16
- Page
- 44
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Thysanoptera (thrips) are well-documented foliar sucking/rasping pests of vegetables.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Thrips rasp-suck plant tissue causing foliar damage on vegetables; standard pest classification.”
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