Claim · #6495123
Telenomus proditor · biocontrol · Achaea janata
biocontrol · effect: beneficial
preysOn GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“parasitoid recovery was 60–80%”
- Authors
- Das B.C., et al.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Parasitoids in Pest Management (book chapter: Aphidiinae Parasitoids)
- Page
- 275
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Importation of Telenomus proditor from Papua New Guinea against Achaea janata on castor in Hyderabad with high recovery is reported in Indian biocontrol records.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Telenomus proditor is a known scelionid egg parasitoid of Erebidae moths including Achaea janata; the 60-80% post-release recovery falls within plausible classical-biocontrol establishment ranges.”
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