Claim · #6496147
Thrips tabaci · pest pressure · Allium cepa
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Thrips (Thrips tabaci) are tiny insects that cut or 'rasp' the epidermis”
- Source
- Suggested Cultural Practices for Onion
- Authors
- Shanmugasundaram S., Kalb T.
- Publication
- AVRDC International Cooperators' Guide
- Page
- 5
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Thrips tabaci is a major onion pest with rasping-sucking damage causing leaf blasting; classifications and dry-season worsening are accurate.”
- entomologist · plausible
“T. tabaci (Thysanoptera) feeds on onion via punch-and-suck rasping; high impact, dry-season severity, and bulb-size reduction are well-documented.”
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