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Cyzenis albicans

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Wikipedia Abstract

Cyzenis albicans is a species of fly in the family Tachinidae. Cyzenis albicans only eats winter moths. In an experimental effort to keep the winter moths in check, thousands of Cyzenis albicans were released in 2015 in 17 sites across New England, including sites in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Maine, with some success.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Gower Ash Woods/ Coedydd Ynn Gwyr 576 Wales, United Kingdom
Moor House – Upper Teesdale 95867 England, United Kingdom
Morecambe Bay Pavements 6449 England, United Kingdom
The New Forest 72309 England, United Kingdom
Windsor Forest and Great Park 4169 England, United Kingdom

Ecosystems

Prey / Diet

Pieris rapae (imported cabbageworm)[1]
Tortrix viridana (Green tortrix)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Blondelia nigripes1
Phryxe nemea1
Picromerus bidens (Spined Stink Bug )1
Trixa conspersa1

Providers

Parasite of 
Alsophila pometaria (fall cankerworm)[2]
Malacosoma americana (Eastern tent caterpillar)[2]
Tortrix viridana (Green tortrix)[1]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Ecology of Commanster
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0