Claim · #6493567
Trichogramma spp. · biocontrol · Lepidoptera (order)
biocontrol · effect: beneficial
preysOn GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Trichogramma species, used on more than 100,000 hectares of crops”
- Authors
- Pedigo L.P., Rice M.E.
- Year
- 2009
- Publication
- Pearson Prentice Hall
- Page
- 338
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Trichogramma spp. are well-documented egg parasitoids of Lepidoptera used in large-scale inoculative biocontrol programs; the source quote and mechanism align with structured fields.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Trichogramma spp. are well-documented egg parasitoids of Lepidoptera, and large-scale inoculative releases on >100,000 ha in the US is consistent with published biocontrol literature.”
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