Meaning of chrysopid | Babel Free

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Any species of the green lacewing family Chrysopidae.

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“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).”

“Still, the most studied taxa within this order are the chrysopids, and most adult green lacewings are glucophagous to some degree.”

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