Claim · #6495020
Botanophila seneciella · biocontrol · Jacobaea vulgaris
biocontrol · effect: beneficial
preysOn GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Botanophila seneciella (Meade)... Ragwort seed fly”
- Authors
- Bhagyasree S.N., Anokhe Archana, Shashank P.R., Patel C.H.
- Year
- 2022
- Publication
- Insect Predators in Pest Management (CRC Press / Taylor & Francis)
- Page
- 299
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Botanophila seneciella is a documented seed-feeding biocontrol agent of Senecio jacobaea (tansy ragwort) released in North America and elsewhere.”
- entomologist · plausible
“B. seneciella (Anthomyiidae) is the ragwort seed fly, an established biocontrol agent whose larvae destroy ragwort seedheads.”
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