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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Greenhouse Whitefly Parasitoid

Encarsia formosa

About

The most widely used parasitoid wasp in greenhouse biological control worldwide. Parasitized whitefly nymphs turn black, making monitoring easy.

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Did You Know?

It reproduces entirely by parthenogenesis since males are extremely rare in commercial populations.