Claim · #6495124
Apanteles · biocontrol · Lepidoptera
biocontrol · effect: beneficial
preysOn GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“releases that integrate Trichogramma with both Bt and Apanteles”
- Authors
- Das B.C., et al.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Parasitoids in Pest Management (book chapter: Aphidiinae Parasitoids)
- Page
- 274
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Integrating Apanteles larval parasitoids with Trichogramma and Bt to halve insecticide use on tomato/cassava in Colombia matches published CIAT/CABI Latin American IPM case studies.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Apanteles (Braconidae: Microgastrinae) are widespread larval parasitoids of Lepidoptera and are routinely combined with Trichogramma egg parasitoids and Bt sprays in tritrophic IPM.”
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