chrysopid
Noun
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Noun
chrysopid (plural chrysopids)
- (zoology) Any species of the green lacewing family Chrysopidae.
- 1976, M. Mackauer, M. J. Way, 4: Myzus persicae Sulz., an aphid of world importance, V. L. Delucchi (editor), Studies in Biological Control, page 103 ↗,
- The method encouraged the chrysopids and coccinellids to lay eggs before or at the very beginning of the aphid build-up and thus prevented aphid populations from attaining damaging levels.
- 2007, M. Campos, Chapter 28: Lacewings in Andalusian olive orchards, P. K. McEwen, T. R. New, A. E. Whittington (editors), Lacewings in the Crop Environment, page 492 ↗,
- However, numerous studies have been conducted on chrysopids, given that lacewing larvae are major oophagous predators of the olive moth (Montiel Bueno, 1981; Ramos et al., 1983a, b).
- 1976, M. Mackauer, M. J. Way, 4: Myzus persicae Sulz., an aphid of world importance, V. L. Delucchi (editor), Studies in Biological Control, page 103 ↗,
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