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Article
Foraging Allocation in the Honey Bee, Apis mellifera L. (Hymenoptera, Apidae), Tuned by the Presence of the Spinosad-Based Pesticide GF-120
Agroecosystem management commonly involves the use of pesticides. As a result, a heterogeneous landscape is created, in which suitable and unsuitable spaces are defined by the absence/presence of pesticides. I...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Demography of Anastrepha Fruit Flies: A Case Study of Three Species of Economic Importance
Demographic information is a prerequisite for the development of effective pest management programs (Levins and Wilson 1980). Knowledge and understanding of fruit fly demography is considered important for sev...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Implementation of the Starter Diet Technique for Medfly Mass-Rearing at Metapa, Chiapas, Mexico
One of the main requirements to successfully apply the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT), is to have efficient and economic rearing methods available. Larval diets that produce large numbers of relatively good qu...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Ten Years of Successful Medfly Sterile Mass Production at Metapa, Chiapas, Mexico
“An economic method for rearing large amounts of insects must be available...”. This was quoted repeatedly as the first requirement for the successful application of the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) at the e...
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Article
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...