Claim · #6495078
Telenomus podisi · biocontrol · Pentatomidae
biocontrol · effect: beneficial
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Verbatim source quote
“The age of host eggs affects oviposition of Telenomus podisi”
- Authors
- Das B.C., et al.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Parasitoids in Pest Management (book chapter: Aphidiinae Parasitoids)
- Page
- 268
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Telenomus podisi is a textbook scelionid egg parasitoid of pentatomid stink bugs (especially Euschistus and related Neotropical pests); host-egg-age dependence is a well-known behavioural finding.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Telenomus podisi parasitism of Pentatomidae and the documented effect of host egg age on oviposition acceptance are canonical findings in scelionid behavioural ecology and Brazilian soybean IPM literature.”
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