Claim · #6495114
Telenomus samueli · biocontrol · Bagrada cruciferarum
biocontrol · effect: beneficial
preysOn GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Ex. eggs of Bagrada cruciferarum”
- Authors
- Das B.C., et al.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Parasitoids in Pest Management (book chapter: Aphidiinae Parasitoids)
- Page
- 270
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Bagrada cruciferarum is a Brassica pest in India and scelionid egg parasitism contributes to its natural mortality, fitting the agroecological pattern of stinkbug egg-parasitoid suppression.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Telenomus samueli has been recorded from Bagrada eggs in Indian Pentatomidae parasitoid surveys; the host-parasitoid pairing and Hemiptera-Scelionidae association is standard.”
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