Claim · #6495013
Agasicles hygrophila · biocontrol · Alternanthera philoxeroides
biocontrol · effect: beneficial
preysOn GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Agasicles hygrophila... Alligator weed Flea beetle”
- 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
- 299
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Agasicles hygrophila is the textbook first US classical weed-biocontrol success against alligator weed (released 1964), now established globally.”
- entomologist · plausible
“A. hygrophila (Chrysomelidae) is the alligator weed flea beetle, one of the most-cited weed biocontrol successes in the entomological literature.”
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