Claim · #6494892
Hippodamia convergens · biocontrol · Schizaphis graminum
biocontrol · effect: beneficial
preysOn GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Hippodamia convergens... reared on Schizaphis graminum and Rhopalosiphum padi”
- Authors
- Bhagyasree S.N., Anokhe Archana, Shashank P.R., Patel C.H.
- Year
- 2022
- Publication
- Insect Predators in Pest Management (CRC Press / Taylor & Francis)
- Page
- 200
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Hippodamia convergens is a standard biocontrol agent of cereal aphids in U.S. small-grain systems and rearing on Schizaphis graminum and Rhopalosiphum padi is well documented.”
- entomologist · plausible
“H. convergens larval predation on greenbug and bird cherry-oat aphid is consistent with published functional-response and laboratory rearing studies.”
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