Claim · #6495140
Eretmocerus · biocontrol · Aleyrodidae
biocontrol · effect: beneficial
preysOn GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“well-known endoparasitoids of whiteflies, nearly cosmopolitan”
- Authors
- Das B.C., et al.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Parasitoids in Pest Management (book chapter: Aphidiinae Parasitoids)
- Page
- 300
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Eretmocerus is a well-known cosmopolitan whitefly parasitoid genus widely used in Bemisia and Trialeurodes biocontrol programs.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Eretmocerus spp. are endoparasitoids of whitefly nymphs (oviposit beneath the nymph) and are nearly cosmopolitan; this is core aphelinid biology.”
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