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Greenhouse Whitefly Parasitoid Wasp

Encarsia formosa

Classification

Class
Insecta

Encarsia formosa is a species of chalcidoid wasp and a well known parasitoid of greenhouse whitefly, one of the first to be used commercially for biological pest control, from the 1920s. Its use fell with commercial pesticides in the 1940s, but rose again from the 1970s. Description The tiny females (about 0.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United Kingdom · 2Germany · 1