(Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera)
by Brian Pitkin, Willem Ellis, Colin Plant and Rob Edmunds
SILYBUM. Milk Thistle. [Asteraceae]
Only one species of Silybum is recorded in Britain, the introduced Milk Thistle (S. marianum).
No British miners are recorded on Silybum.
Elsewhere the agromyzid Napomyza lateralis is recorded boring stems of Silybum.
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