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Differential Response to Photoperiod by Diverging Rhagoletis pomonella (Diptera: Tephritidae) Populations Exploiting Host Plants with Different Fruiting Phenology
Photoperiod has been found to influence the proportion of non-dormant individuals and the duration of dormancy among North American populations of Rhagoletis pomonella (Walsh) (Diptera: Tephritidae). In particula...
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Temporal dynamics of diversity in a tropical fruit fly (Tephritidae) ensemble and their implications on pest management and biodiversity conservation
The fact that pests are the most abundant species in agricultural settings has broadly precluded the attention to non-pest species and the study of temporal dynamics of diversity in agroecosystems. Because, ag...
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Are individuals from thelytokous and arrhenotokous populations equally adept as biocontrol agents? Orientation and host searching behavior of a fruit fly parasitoid
Hymenopteran parasitoids generally reproduce by arrhenotoky, in which males develop from unfertilized eggs and females from fertilized eggs. A minority reproduce by thelytoky, in which all-female broods are de...
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Short Communication: Mating Behavior of Aganaspis pelleranoi (Brèthes) (Hymenoptera: Figitidae, Eucoilinae), a Fruit Fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Larval Parasitoid
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Study of Movement in Tephritid Flies: Review of Concepts and Recent Advances
Kinesis is a fundamental component of almost any activity a fruit fly larvae or adult engages in: movement within the fruit pulp or inflorescence while feeding or while esca** a parasitoid sting, exit from a...
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Fruit infesting tephritids [Dipt.: Tephritidae] and associated parasitoids in Chiapas, Mexico
A total of 1,302 parasitoids representing 8 species and 4 families were recovered from 9,818 fruit fly host fruits sampled. The most common parasitoid species wasDiachasmimorpha longicaudata (Ashmead). Average pe...
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Behaviour of Female and Male Mediterranean Fruit Flies, Ceratitis Capitata in and Around Jackson Traps Placed on Fruiting Host Trees
We studied the distribution of wild Mediterranean fruit flies, Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae) in different environments of trimedlure-baited Jackson traps during high fall season populations in Souther...