Claim · #6492827
Ichneumonidae (family) · biocontrol · Lepidoptera spp.
biocontrol · effect: beneficial
preysOn GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“ichneumon wasps emerging from caterpillars were the result of eggs laid by adult female ichneumonids”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 2
AI critic verdicts
- entomologist · plausible
“Ichneumonidae are well-documented larval endoparasitoids of Lepidoptera; adult females ovipositing into caterpillars is canonical biology, fully consistent with source quote and structured fields.”
- agroecologist · plausible
“Ichneumonidae are well-established koinobiont/idiobiont parasitoids of Lepidoptera larvae; the parasitism mechanism and direction (wasp oviposits into caterpillar) are biologically correct and historically credible.”
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