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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