Claim · #6494763
Epidinocarsis lopezi · biocontrol · Phenacoccus manihoti
biocontrol · effect: beneficial
preysOn GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“mealybug populations were 7.0 and 2.3 times lower”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Epidinocarsis lopezi release across Africa and exclusion-experiment magnitudes (~7-37x suppression at some sites) are core findings of the IITA cassava mealybug programme; numbers are within reported ranges.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Encyrtid parasitoid biology (oviposition plus host-feeding mortality), 1981 Nigeria release, and broad African establishment match the documented Neuenschwander/Herren programme.”
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