chrysopid
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Noun edit
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”, in 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).
- 2009, Jonathan G. Lundgren, Relationships of Natural Enemies and Non-prey Foods[1], page 30:
- Still, the most studied taxa within this order are the chrysopids, and most adult green lacewings are glucophagous to some degree.