Claim · #6494764
Rhizophagus grandis · biocontrol · Dendroctonus micans
biocontrol · effect: beneficial
preysOn GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“reduce a brood of D. micans by at least two-thirds”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Rhizophagus grandis as a specialist predator of Dendroctonus micans with strong brood reduction is the canonical classical biocontrol case (Gregoire et al. 1985 onward) and represents textbook agroecological pest regulation in spruce systems.”
- entomologist · plausible
“R. grandis (Monotomidae) is a documented host-specific predator of D. micans and the cited two-thirds brood reduction is consistent with field-release data from the European biocontrol programme.”
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