Claim · #6495490
Cotesia flavipes · biocontrol · Diatraea saccharalis
biocontrol · effect: beneficial
preysOn GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Cotesia flavipes Hymenoptera Latin America Lepidopterans 1974 L”
- Source
- The state of commercial augmentative biological control: plenty of natural enemies, but a frustrating lack of uptake
- Authors
- van Lenteren J.C.
- Year
- 2012
- Publication
- BioControl
- Page
- 5
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Cotesia flavipes is widely deployed against Diatraea saccharalis in Latin American sugarcane; 1974 release date and parasitoid mechanism correct.”
- entomologist · plausible
“C. flavipes is a documented gregarious larval endoparasitoid of lepidopteran stem borers including D. saccharalis; classic Latin American biocontrol case.”
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