Claim · #6495154
Syrphidae · biocontrol · Thysanoptera
biocontrol · effect: beneficial
preysOn GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“eating plant-sucking insects, like thrips and aphids”
- Authors
- Das B.C., et al.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Parasitoids in Pest Management (book chapter: Aphidiinae Parasitoids)
- Page
- 318
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Syrphid (hoverfly) larvae are well-known aphidophagous and also take thrips and other soft-bodied insects; biocontrol direction with hoverflies as beneficial is correct.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Aphidophagous Syrphinae larvae routinely consume thrips and aphids; family-level subject_crop is acceptable as Syrphinae predation is broadly distributed across the family.”
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