Augmentative releases of  Diachasmimorpha longicaudata  (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) for  Ceratitis capitata  (Diptera: Tephritidae) control in a fruit-growing region of Argentina

Sánchez, Guillermo; Murúa, Fernando; Suárez, L.; Nieuwenhove, Guido A. Van; Taret, Gustavo; Pantano, Valeria; Bilbao, Mariana; Schliserman, Pablo; Ovruski, Sérgio M.

doi:10.1016/j.biocontrol.2016.08.002

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“…The ability to fly has also been used as a parameter to measure the ability of the parasitoid to reach its host (Cancino et al, 2006a). In this study, no differences were found between treatments for the variables like sex ratio and fertility, but for parasitism there were differences, the highest percentages of parasitism were those found in 60 cc and 70 cc treatments (65%, Table 1), these percentages were comparable with those obtained by Sánchez et al (2016) in the field, which were also between 16% and 75% on Ceratitis capitata. It is important to note that the fertility variable showed significant differences between days (Fig 1).…”

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Evaluation of volumes of Ceratitis capitata larvae in exposure devices to Diachasmimorpha longicaudata in mass rearing conditions in Costa Rica

Morera-Montoya

Blanco-Metzler

González-Lutz

2019

Journal of Biological Control

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Five volumes (60 cc, 70 cc, 80 cc, 90 cc and 100 cc) of L 3 of Ceratitis capitata in exposure devices to the parasitoid Diachasmimorpha longicaudata were evaluated in mass rearing conditions with the objective of finding the optimal quantity of host larvae to obtain the best parasite quality parameters. The variables like parasitism, sexual proportion and fertility were analyzed with ANOVA and compared with Tukey's range test. Significant differences were found for treatment in the variable parasitism (ρ = 0.0244), showing that the treatments of 60 cc and 70 cc obtained the highest number of parasitized larvae. The variables like sex ratio and fertility did not show any difference between treatments, but for fecundity there were variations for days 5 and 3 (ρ<0.0001). The flight ability, male and female mortality and fertility variables were analyzed with the model of logistic regression analysis with autocorrelation correction (response variable is binomial), for which treatment effects were found only in the variable mortality of males for the treatment 70 cc. According to these results, the volume of 70 cc would be the promissory treatment for industrial production in order to obtain greater parasitism and a longer life of males.

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Evaluation of volumes of Ceratitis capitata larvae in exposure devices to Diachasmimorpha longicaudata in mass rearing conditions in Costa Rica

Morera-Montoya

Blanco-Metzler

González-Lutz

2019

Journal of Biological Control

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“…Host location and host acceptance behavior has been widely studied in the generalist fruit fly parasitoid Diachasmimorpha longicaudata (Ashmead) (Greany et al 1977, Lawrence 1981, Carrasco et al 2005. This species is exotic in the Americas where it has been successfully reared for augmentative biological control of Anastrepha (Schiner) fruit flies in Mexico (Montoya et al 2000(Montoya et al , 2007 and in Florida USA (Sivinski et al 1996); and for Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) in Argentina (Sanchez et al 2016). However, there is a guild of native opiine braconid parasitoids (Sivinski et al , 2001 with potential as biocontrol agents, for which little information exists regarding their foraging and host acceptance behavior.…”

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Host acceptance by three native braconid parasitoid species attacking larvae of the Mexican fruit fly, Anastrepha ludens (Diptera, Tephritidae)

Ayala¹,

Pérez‐Lachaud²,

Toledo³

et al. 2018

JHR

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We studied the oviposition and host acceptance behavior of three braconid parasitoid species native to Mexico, Doryctobracon crawfordi (Viereck), Opius hirtus (Fischer), and Utetes anastrephae (Viereck), with potential to be considered as biocontrol agents against tephritid fruit fly pests in the Neotropics. Third instar larvae of Anastrepha ludens (Loew), with and without previous parasitization by conspecifics, were simultaneously offered to females of each species, and the individual behavior was video recorded to construct oviposition flow diagrams. The patterns of foraging and host acceptance were similar in the studied species; all rejected mostly parasitized hosts suggesting that this strategy is common in the guild of larval parasitoids attacking Anastrepha spp. The complete searching and host acceptance process took 2.2 ± 0.1 min (mean ± SE) in D. crawfordi, 1.7 ± 0.1 s in U. anastrephae and 1.5 ± 0.1 s in O. hirtus. Notably, because of toxins injected by parasitoid females during oviposition, the parasitized hosts experienced a transient paralysis of variable duration. Hosts attacked by U. anastrephae remained immobile for the shortest time (12.5 ± 1 min) (mean±SE), followed by D. crawfordi (20.5 ± 3.4 min) and O. hirtus (24.1 ± 2 min). Our data revealed a notable discrimination ability in all three species, and that behavioral differences lay 34 mainly in the time of parasitization and in the duration of paralysis experienced by attacked hosts. This suggest that the three species could be valuable as biocontrol agents, but additional studies are necessary to better understand the advantages and limitations of each one as natural enemies of fruit fly pests.

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“…To sum up, findings from this study add knowledge on chemically mediated foraging behaviours of D. longicaudata and A. pelleranoi , and highlight the potential use of both parasitoids species for augmentative release programs in Argentinean fruit‐growing regions where A. fraterculus and C. capitata coexist. In Argentina, D. longicaudata is mass reared on larvae of C. capitata and mass released against this pest (Sánchez et al., ). However, in several Argentinean regions, the presence of A. fraterculus is also a main concern for growers.…”

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“…Currently, D. longicaudata is being mass reared on larvae of a Ceratitis capitata temperature‐sensitive lethal (tsl) vienna‐8 genetic sexing strain at the Bioplanta San Juan facility, Argentina (Suárez et al., ), and is being mass released against Medfly in fruit‐producing irrigated‐valleys of San Juan, central‐western Argentina (Sánchez et al., ). Regarding A. pelleranoi , it has been laboratory‐reared on both C. capitata and Anastrepha fraterculus (Gonçalves et al., ; Núñez‐Campero, Aluja, Rull, & Ovruski, ), and it is a candidate species to be incorporated in augmentative biological control (Aluja, Ovruski, Guillén, Oroño, & Sivinski, ).…”

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Response of two parasitoid species (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Figitidae) to tephritid host and host food substrate cues

Biancheri

Suárez²,

Bezdjian

et al. 2018

J Applied Entomology

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The Neotropical‐native figitid Aganaspis pelleranoi (Brèthes) and the Asian braconid Diachasmimorpha longicaudata (Ashmead) are two parasitoids of Tephritidae fruit flies with long and recent, respectively, evolutionary histories in the Neotropics. Both species experienced a recent range of overlap. In Argentina, A. pelleranoi is a potential species in biological control programs against the pestiferous tephritid species, Anastrepha fraterculus (Wiedemann) and Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann), whereas D. longicaudata is already used in open‐field releases against Medfly in central‐western Argentina. To characterize the host‐foraging strategies of A. pelleranoi and D. longicaudata, olfactometer experiments were conducted comparing responses to C. capitata and A. fraterculus larvae, in two kinds of food substrate: fruit and artificial larval medium. To control the possible influence of host larvae used for parasitoid rearing on olfactory response, two strains of both parasitoid species, reared on both tephrtid species, were studied. Volatiles directly emanating either from A. fraterculus or C. capitata larvae may be detected by both A. pelleranoi and D. longicaudata, although chemical stimuli originating from the combination of host larvae and the habitat of the host were preferred. However, olfactory cues associated with host larvae probably play a relevant role in host searching behaviour of A. pelleranoi, whereas for D. longicaudata, the host‐habitat olfactory stimuli would be highly essential in short‐range host location. The strain of the parasitoids did not affect host search ability on the two tephritid species evaluated. These evidences are relevant for mass production of both parasitoids and their impact following open‐field augmentative releases.

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Augmentative releases of Diachasmimorpha longicaudata (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) for Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae) control in a fruit-growing region of Argentina

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Evaluation of volumes of Ceratitis capitata larvae in exposure devices to Diachasmimorpha longicaudata in mass rearing conditions in Costa Rica

Evaluation of volumes of Ceratitis capitata larvae in exposure devices to Diachasmimorpha longicaudata in mass rearing conditions in Costa Rica

Host acceptance by three native braconid parasitoid species attacking larvae of the Mexican fruit fly, Anastrepha ludens (Diptera, Tephritidae)

Response of two parasitoid species (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Figitidae) to tephritid host and host food substrate cues

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