Claim · #6493347
Melanaspis glomerata · pest pressure · Saccharum officinarum
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“sugarcane setts infested with M. glomerata nymphs”
- Authors
- Das B.C., et al.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Parasitoids in Pest Management (book chapter: Aphidiinae Parasitoids)
- Page
- 138
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Adelencyrtus mayurai is a known encyrtid parasitoid of Melanaspis glomerata on sugarcane in India; mass-rearing on infested setts is a documented biocontrol practice consistent with the source quote.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Adelencyrtus mayurai is a known encyrtid parasitoid of Melanaspis glomerata; mass-rearing on infested sugarcane setts using nymphal host stages is biologically consistent with armored scale parasitoid biocontrol practice in India.”
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