Bactrocera oleae
Olive fruit fly
- Category
- invertebrate
- Primary role
- pest insect
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Tephritidae
- Genus
- Bactrocera
Animalia | Arthropoda | Insecta | Diptera | Tephritidae | Bactrocera
External: GBIF #7587619
3 AI-consensus-verified claims across 2 interaction categories.
Related entities
Top entities sharing the most verified claims with Bactrocera oleae.
herbivory 1 claim
- This entity is the subject of herbivory on Olea europaea (African olive) · effect: harmful
“olive fruit fly (Dacus oleae)”
eats ✓ 2/2 AI critics agreed
pest pressure 2 claims
- This entity is the subject of pest pressure on Olea europaea (African olive) · effect: harmful
“action thresholds developed for Bactrocera oleae in olives”
eats ✓ 2/2 AI critics agreed - This entity is the subject of pest pressure on Olea europaea (African olive) · effect: harmful
“action thresholds for Bactrocera oleae in olives”
eats ✓ 2/2 AI critics agreed
Genus-level evidence
1 claim where the source named the organism only at the genus or collective level (e.g. Bactrocera sp.) and did not determine the species. Listed separately because they apply to the genus, not specifically to Bactrocera oleae.
- pest pressure · Bactrocera spp. → Cucurbitaceae (family) · effect: harmful
“Bactrocera...cucurbit fruit”
AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center · AVRDC Vegetable Insect Pests fact sheets (Helicoverpa armigera, Plutella xylostella, Liriomyza spp., Bactrocera spp., Thrips palmi) #6496155
Aggregated via GloBI — not independently verified by AgroEco.
biocontrol 1
- GloBI eats Bactrocera oleae Bourlat SJ, Koch M, Kirse A, Langen K, Espeland M, Giebner H, Decher J, Ssymank A, Fonseca VG (2023) Metabarcoding dietary analysis in the insectivorous bat Nyctalus leisleri and implications for conservation. Biodiversity Data Journal 11: e111146. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e111146. Accessed at <https://github.com/globalbioticinteractions/bourlat2023/archive/bff8fb55499beddd0cd73663ad0a6cfecd7d1dae.zip> on 23 May 2026. DOI
herbivory 1
- GloBI eats Olea europaea Ellis, W. N. (2022). Plant Parasites of Europe – leafminers, galls and fungi [Database]. https://bladmineerders.nl/
pest pressure 2
- GloBI parasiteOf Olea europaea https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7971055
- GloBI hasHost Olea europaea https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/129341425
pollination 3
- GloBI interactsWith Ficus carica https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/100239741
- GloBI interactsWith Morus alba https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4136607
- GloBI interactsWith Olea europaea https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/129341425
biocontrol 1
- GloBI eats Bactrocera oleae Bourlat SJ, Koch M, Kirse A, Langen K, Espeland M, Giebner H, Decher J, Ssymank A, Fonseca VG (2023) Metabarcoding dietary analysis in the insectivorous bat Nyctalus leisleri and implications for conservation. Biodiversity Data Journal 11: e111146. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e111146. Accessed at <https://github.com/globalbioticinteractions/bourlat2023/archive/bff8fb55499beddd0cd73663ad0a6cfecd7d1dae.zip> on 23 May 2026. DOI
crop interaction 6
- GloBI interactsWith Ficus carica https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/100239741
- GloBI parasiteOf Olea europaea https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7971055
- GloBI interactsWith Morus alba https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4136607
- GloBI eats Olea europaea Ellis, W. N. (2022). Plant Parasites of Europe – leafminers, galls and fungi [Database]. https://bladmineerders.nl/
- GloBI hasHost Olea europaea https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/129341425
- GloBI interactsWith Olea europaea https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/129341425