Claim · #6493355
Copidosoma desantisi · biocontrol · Phthorimaea operculella
biocontrol · effect: beneficial
preysOn GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Each mummified larva may yield up to 60–100 adults of the parasitoid”
- Authors
- Das B.C., et al.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Parasitoids in Pest Management (book chapter: Aphidiinae Parasitoids)
- Page
- 139
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Copidosoma spp. are well-documented polyembryonic encyrtid parasitoids of Gelechiidae including P. operculella; 60–100 adults per mummy is consistent with known polyembryony ratios for this genus.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Copidosoma spp. are well-known polyembryonic encyrtid parasitoids of Gelechiidae including P. operculella, and clutch sizes of 60–100 are biologically consistent with polyembryony in this genus.”
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