Demetrias atricapillus · biocontrol · Aphididae (family)

AI critic verdicts

• agroecologist · plausible

  “Demetrias atricapillus overwintering in beetle banks and contributing to cereal aphid suppression is the classic Wratten/Sotherton beetle-bank result and a foundational habitat-management example.”

• entomologist · plausible

  “D. atricapillus (Carabidae: Lebiini) is a well-documented aphid predator using tussock-grass refuges; the beetle-bank ranking is corroborated in Sotherton and Thomas studies.”

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