Claim · #6495047
Trichogramma japonicum · biocontrol · Scirpophaga incertulas
biocontrol · effect: beneficial
parasitoidOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Trichogramma japonicum, an egg parasite of internode borer”
- Authors
- Das B.C., et al.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Parasitoids in Pest Management (book chapter: Aphidiinae Parasitoids)
- Page
- 182
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Trichogramma japonicum is the standard egg parasitoid mass-released against Scirpophaga incertulas (yellow stem borer) in Asian rice IPM programs.”
- entomologist · plausible
“T. japonicum specificity to rice stem borer eggs (Scirpophaga incertulas) is firmly established in rice biocontrol literature.”
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