Claim · #6495220
Coccinellidae (family) · biocontrol · Aphididae (family)
biocontrol · effect: beneficial
preysOn GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“predatory insects decline steeply under intensive land use”
- Authors
- Outhwaite C.L., McCann P., Newbold T.
- Year
- 2022
- Publication
- Nature
- Page
- 3
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Coccinellid decline reducing aphid biocontrol is a well-known concrete example of predator-loss cascade. Sound agroecological framing.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Coccinellidae are dominant aphidophagous predators; declines in Adalia, Coccinella documented under intensification (Roy, Brown). Mechanism correct.”
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