Drosophila melanogaster
Common fruit fly, Vinegar fly
- Category
- invertebrate
- Primary role
- pest insect
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Drosophilidae
- Genus
- Drosophila
Animalia | Arthropoda | Insecta | Diptera | Drosophilidae | Drosophila
External: GBIF #5073713
0 AI-consensus-verified claims .
No verified claims involving this entity yet.
Genus-level evidence
2 claims where the source named the organism only at the genus or collective level (e.g. Drosophila sp.) and did not determine the species. Listed separately because they apply to the genus, not specifically to Drosophila melanogaster.
- biocontrol · Asobara tabida → Drosophila spp. · effect: beneficial
“larger females had larger fat reserves ... and dispersed over greater distances than smaller females”
Gurr G.M., Wratten S.D., Altieri M.A. (2004) · Ecological Engineering for Pest Management: Advances in Habitat Manipulation for Arthropods · p. 84 #6492554 - biocontrol · Pachycrepoideus vindemmiae → Drosophila spp. · effect: beneficial
“Parasites of muscoidea flies, blow flies, Drosophila, and many fruit flies”
Aggregated via GloBI — not independently verified by AgroEco.
biocontrol 1
- GloBI eats Drosophila melanogaster Eggs, B., & Sanders, D. (2013). Herbivory in spiders: the importance of pollen for orb-weavers. PLoS One, 8(11), e82637. DOI
flower visitor 1
- GloBI visits Vitis vinifera https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/309696037
pollination 1
- GloBI interactsWith Drosophila melanogaster https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/146473829
attractant 2
- GloBI visits Vitis vinifera https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/309696037
- GloBI interactsWith Drosophila melanogaster https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/146473829
biocontrol 1
- GloBI eats Drosophila melanogaster Eggs, B., & Sanders, D. (2013). Herbivory in spiders: the importance of pollen for orb-weavers. PLoS One, 8(11), e82637. DOI