Identity of the Giant Fig Thrips (Thysanoptera) Infesting Ficus nota (Blanco) Merr. in Leyte, Philippines
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Ficus nota (Blanco) Merr. (Moraceae), locally known as “tibig” or “tabog,” is endemic to the Philippines. This species of fig is well known for its medicinal importance and is one of the high value trees planted and managed by rural households in the province of Leyte. The study aimed to establish the identity of thrips or “kulisipsip” associated with F. nota in the campus of the Visayas State University in Baybay, Leyte. Thrips samples were collected from 20 leaves selected randomly from “Tibig” once a month from December 2018 to March 2019. Specimens were sorted under a stereomicroscope, cleared, mounted on slides using Canada balsam, and examined under a light microscope. The giant fig thrips, Gigantothrips elegans Zimmermann, was the only species found. Thrips feeding damage on the leaves was severe. Larvae, female and male thrips fed on the underside of the leaves and were found aggregated. This result implies that the G. elegans population reproduced sexually and the aggregation suggests that pheromones were involved. Since this species of thrips is colonial or gregarious, aggregation pheromone-baited traps could be developed by future researchers to manage this insect pest.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".