Claim · #6495889
Bemisia tabaci · pest pressure · Gossypium hirsutum
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Bemisia tabaci in cotton that resulted in equal crop yields”
- Source
- Economic Value of Biological Control in Integrated Pest Management of Managed Plant Systems
- Authors
- Naranjo S.E., Ellsworth P.C., Frisvold G.B.
- Year
- 2015
- Publication
- Annual Review of Entomology
- Page
- 32.8
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Bemisia tabaci is a confirmed major cotton pest in Arizona with established conservation biocontrol IPM programs.”
- entomologist · plausible
“B. tabaci is a documented high-impact cotton pest; phloem-feeder primarily on leaves; Arizona IPM literature is robust.”
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