Claim · #6492506
Ichneumonidae (family) · biocontrol · Meligethes aeneus
biocontrol · effect: beneficial
preysOn GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“larvae of the pollen beetles mainly attacked by parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)”
- Authors
- Gurr G.M., Wratten S.D., Altieri M.A.
- Year
- 2004
- Publication
- CSIRO Publishing
- Page
- 56
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Ichneumonidae parasitising Meligethes aeneus larvae in Brassica flowers is well-documented; landscape heterogeneity enhancing parasitism rates is consistent with tritrophic biocontrol literature.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Ichneumonidae parasitizing Meligethes aeneus larvae in rape flowers is well-documented in European IPM literature; source quote directly supports larval-stage parasitism claim.”
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