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Parasitoids and Forensic Flies
Parasitoids are known to grow on blow flies of forensic importance on carcass environment and may bear impact to the blow flies and also play a role...
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Phytosanitary Irradiation of Tephritid Fruit Flies
Tephritid fruit flies are the most important high-risk quarantine pests of fresh fruits and vegetables worldwide and a major impediment to trade and...
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Fruit Flies Management in Haïti
Tephritid fruit flies (Diptera, Tephritidae) are economically important in Haiti and significantly constrain mango exports. For years, there has been...
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Management of Fruit Flies in the Americas
This book comprises issues at the cutting edge of fruit fly management in the Americas, covering topics that are focal points of current activity and...
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Recent Developments in the Study of Forensic Flies
Since its early history of study dating back to the thirteenth century in China, with the development of different techniques, the study of forensic...
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Forensic Flies: Advances in Study Through Morphological Evidences
Microscopy is by far the most powerful tool in identification and study of the forensic flies. Our knowledge on fly morphology, reproductive parts,...
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TephritidBase: a genome visualization and gene expression database for tephritid flies
The fruit flies in Tephritidae include many severe fruits and vegetables pests. To date, the genomes and transcriptomes of tephritid flies are...
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Pathogenicity of entomopathogenic nematodes to dipteran leaf miners, house flies and mushroom flies
BackgroundThe entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs), especially in the 2 families Steinernematidae and Heterorhabditidae, are important biocontrol agents...
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Carbon Dioxide, Methane, and Synthetic Cattle Breath Volatiles Attract Host-Seeking Stable Flies, Stomoxys calcitrans
Stable flies, Stomoxys calcitrans (L.), are blood-feeding ectoparasites of cattle. Host-seeking stable flies respond to various cattle host cues, but...
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Bartonella Infection in Fruit Bats and Bat Flies, Bangladesh
Bats harbor diverse intracellular Bartonella bacteria, but there is limited understanding of the factors that influence transmission over time....
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True Flies: Diptera
The flies and midges within the order Diptera (true flies) bear membranous forewings, whilst their hindwings are vestigial, modified into balancing...
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Stable flies sense and behaviorally respond to the polarization of light
Insects use their polarization-sensitive photoreceptors in a variety of ecological contexts including host-foraging. Here, we investigated the effect...
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Biological Control of Fruit Flies with Emphasis on Microbial Control
The damage caused by fruit flies can occur directly through egg laying and larval development, which opens the door to secondary pathogens in the...
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Vimar/RAP1GDS1 promotes acceleration of brain aging after flies and mice reach middle age
Brain aging may accelerate after rodents reach middle age. However, the endogenous mediator that promotes this acceleration is unknown. We predict...
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Fruit Flies: A Threat to Fruit Production in the Americas
This chapter briefly introduces the basics of fruit fly management in the Americas. A total of 21 species of fruit flies belonging to the genera...
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The Management of Fruit Flies in Colombia: A Long Road to Travel
Fruit production is an expanding sector within Colombian agriculture. There are numerous native and exotic fruit species produced both for the...
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Scuttle flies (Diptera: Phoridae) of subterranean habitats in Slovakia: a review and a case study
During biospeleological surveys in Slovakia in the past, phorid flies were usually overlooked or ignored. Only one species, Triphleba antricola ...
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Species Diversity of Anastrepha Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Environments with Different Levels of Anthropogenic Changes
Studies on the diversity of Anastrepha species have been conducted mainly in agricultural orchards due to the economic importance of this insect...
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Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritoidea) and Parasitoids (Hymenoptera) Associated with Native Fruit Trees in the Chaco Biome
Fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritoidea) are the main pests over important fruits and vegetables. In this research was evaluated the tritrophic...
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Differences in rectal amino acid levels determine bacteria-originated sex pheromone specificity in two closely related flies
Sex pheromones are widely used by insects as a reproductive isolating mechanism to attract conspecifics and repel heterospecifics. Although...
