Claim · #6491999
Coccinellidae (family) · biocontrol · Aphidoidea (superfamily)
biocontrol · effect: beneficial
preysOn GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“ladybird beetles, a natural predator of aphids, on organic wheat”
- Authors
- Wezel A., Casagrande M., Celette F., Vian J.-F., Ferrer A., Peigné J.
- Year
- 2014
- Publication
- Agronomy for Sustainable Development
- Page
- 2
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Coccinellidae as aphid predators is textbook biocontrol; source quote directly supports the structured fields and regional context.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Coccinellidae predation on Aphidoidea is textbook biocontrol; source quote directly supports the structured fields and interaction direction.”
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