Claim · #6496129
Bemisia tabaci · pest pressure · Capsicum frutescens
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Whitefly causes problems in many crops”
- Source
- Integrated Pest Management (IPM) practices for whitefly in tomato, pepper, chili and eggplant crops in Africa
- Authors
- Macharia J., Titley M., Aloyce A., Samali S.
- Year
- 2016
- Publication
- World Vegetable Center Publication No. 16-805
- Page
- 1
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Bemisia tabaci is polyphagous on Solanaceae including Capsicum frutescens; sub-Saharan Africa is a known affected region.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Whitefly damage on chili peppers is well-documented in tropical Africa via direct feeding and virus vectoring.”
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