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Cabbage leafminer
Liriomyza brassicae
The serpentine leaf miner is the larva of a fly, Liriomyza brassicae, in the family Agromyzidae, the leaf miner flies. It mines wild and cultivated plants, such as cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and Chinese broccoli.
It is distributed in the Pacific, Africa, and the Americas.
From the article Serpentine leaf miner on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
In human culture
The Wire song Outdoor Miner was inspired by co-writer Graham Lewis's fascination with this insect and details its life cycle.
Wikipedia: “In popular culture”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 391760.