Claim · #6495052
Hypothenemus hampei · pest pressure · Coffea arabica
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Phymastichus coffea is a successfully established biocontrol against coffee berry borer”
- Authors
- Das B.C., et al.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Parasitoids in Pest Management (book chapter: Aphidiinae Parasitoids)
- Page
- 213
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Hypothenemus hampei is the most economically damaging coffee pest globally, and Phymastichus coffea is a documented adult parasitoid used in classical biocontrol programs.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Phymastichus coffea (Eulophidae) is a known parasitoid of adult coffee berry borer with established Colombian release programs since the late 1990s.”
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