Claim · #6734862
Thripidae (family) · pest pressure · Allium sativum
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Garlic Aphids Thrips”
- Authors
- University of Guam Cooperative Extension & Outreach
- Year
- 2024
- Publication
- University of Guam Cooperative Extension & Outreach
- Page
- 73
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Thrips tabaci (onion thrips) is the dominant Thripidae pest of Allium crops worldwide including garlic; leaf rasping/silvering damage is well documented in tropical Pacific production.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Thripidae (Thrips tabaci) on garlic is a globally documented host-pest pairing; affected_part=leaf matches typical rasping damage on garlic foliage.”
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