Claim · #6494934
Amblyseius swirskii · biocontrol · Bemisia tabaci
biocontrol · effect: beneficial
preysOn GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius)”
- 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
- 253
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Amblyseius swirskii is a canonical commercial biocontrol agent for Bemisia tabaci in protected cropping worldwide; whitefly nymph and egg predation is well-documented in IPM literature.”
- entomologist · plausible
“A. swirskii (Phytoseiidae) is the dominant generalist phytoseiid mass-released against B. tabaci on greenhouse vegetables and ornamentals; predation on whitefly immatures is established in entomological literature.”
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