Claim · #6495857
Aphelinus mali · biocontrol · Eriosoma lanigerum
biocontrol · effect: beneficial
parasitoidOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“exotic parasite, Aphelinus mali is very effective to check the population of woolly apple aphid”
- Source
- Insect-Pest Complex and Integrated Pest Management on Apple in Jammu and Kashmir, India
- Authors
- Hussain B., Buhroo A.A., War A.R., Sheerwani A.
- Year
- 2017
- Publication
- Indian Apple: Production and Value Chain Analysis (Chapter 17)
- Page
- 278
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Aphelinus mali is the classic exotic aphelinid parasitoid of woolly apple aphid, widely introduced globally.”
- entomologist · plausible
“A. mali parasitizing Eriosoma lanigerum is a textbook classical biocontrol success story.”
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