Claim · #6493218
Nerium oleander · pest pressure · Citrus aurantium
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“reared from Aphis nerii BdF on Nerium oleander L. in Cuba”
- Authors
- Das B.C., et al.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Parasitoids in Pest Management (book chapter: Aphidiinae Parasitoids)
- Page
- 94
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Lysiphlebus testaceipes parasitizing Aphis nerii on Nerium oleander as a rearing system for citrus biocontrol is well-documented; host-plant interaction_type as pest_pressure is a reasonable encoding of oleander serving as reservoir.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Lysiphlebus testaceipes is a known parasitoid of Aphis nerii on Nerium oleander, and its use as a banker-plant system for citrus aphid biocontrol is biologically consistent with published IPM literature.”
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