<i>Contarinia nasturtii</i>(Kieffer), Swede Midge / Cécidomyie du chou-fleur and<i>Contarinia brassicola</i>Sinclair, Canola Flower Midge / Cécidomyie des fleurs du canola (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Contarinia nasturtii , the swede midge, is an invasive pest of vegetables and oilseed crops in the family Brassicacea. Larval feeding by swede midge damages the growing points of the host plant and can result in significant yield loss in both vegetable and canola crops. To date, swede midge is not established in western Canada, but a close relative, Contarinia brassicola , the canola flower midge, is widespread on the prairies (i.e., Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta) and is present in Ontario as well. Economic damage associated with C. brassicola appears to be rare. Foreign exploration for potential biological control agents of swede midge was conducted in Europe, where parasitoids were observed parasitizing swede midge larvae, but these species were not sufficiently host specific to justify further investigation for importation biological control. Sampling in western Canada has revealed that at least two parasitoids parasitize C. brassicola ; these species are likely undescribed. The chapter reviews the management and status of biological control research for both midge species.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".