Claim · #6494812
Encarsia formosa · biocontrol · Trialeurodes vaporariorum
biocontrol · effect: beneficial
preysOn GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“whitefly parasitoid Encarsia formosa has been used commercially since 1970”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 316
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Encarsia formosa commercial use against Trialeurodes vaporariorum in Dutch greenhouse tomato/cucumber from 1970 is the canonical augmentative biocontrol success story.”
- entomologist · plausible
“E. formosa (Aphelinidae) parasitism of T. vaporariorum is the foundational commercial parasitoid release program with a documented 1970 Dutch commercialization date; mechanism and effect direction are correct.”
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