Claim · #6492554
Asobara tabida · biocontrol · Drosophila spp.
biocontrol · effect: beneficial
preysOn GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“larger females had larger fat reserves ... and dispersed over greater distances than smaller females”
- Authors
- Gurr G.M., Wratten S.D., Altieri M.A.
- Year
- 2004
- Publication
- CSIRO Publishing
- Page
- 84
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Asobara tabida is a well-documented larval endoparasitoid of Drosophila; body-size/fat-reserve effects on dispersal are biologically consistent with parasitoid ecology literature.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Asobara tabida is a well-documented larval endoparasitoid of Drosophila; body-size/fat-reserve effects on dispersal are biologically consistent with known parasitoid ecology.”
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