Suppression of a Mediterranean Fruit Fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Population with Concurrent Parasitoid and Sterile Fly Releases in Kula, Maui, Hawaii

Wong, Tim T. Y.; Ramadan, Mohsen M.; Herr, John C.; McInnis, Donald O.

doi:10.1093/jee/85.5.1671

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“…Knipling (1964), Barclay (1987), and Wong et al (1992) recognized the potential benefit of combining sterile insects with conventional pest control methods. According to population models (Barclay 1987, Knipling 1992, combining inundative releases of natural enemies and sterile insects should yield additive or synergistic effects.…”

Section: Population Models Combining the Effects Of F 1 Sterility Witmentioning

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Inherited Sterility in Insects

Carpenter

Bloem²,

Marec

2005

Sterile Insect Technique

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Section: Population Models Combining the Effects Of F 1 Sterility Witmentioning

confidence: 99%

Inherited Sterility in Insects

Carpenter

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Marec

2005

Sterile Insect Technique

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“…Augmentative releases of tephritid fruit fly parasitoids can also significantly suppress pest populations, with or without accompanying sterile males (Wong et al 1991(Wong et al , 1992Sivinski et al 1996;Montoya et al 2000), and hold promise as an additional technique for area-wide control. Such releases may be particularly attractive in urban or environmentally sensitive areas where chemical controls, i.e., the commonly used insecticide-bait sprays, are difficult or impossible to employ (Rendon et al 2006).…”

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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

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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 allfemale broods are derived from unfertilized eggs. Thelytokous populations are potentially of interest for augmentative biological control programs since the exclusive production of females could significantly lower the costs of mass rearing. Behavioral traits are a major component of parasitoid efficacy. Here, we examined orientation and host searching behavior in thelytokous and arrhenotokous populations of the fruit fly parasitoid Odontosema anastrephae Borgmeier (Hymenoptera: Figitidae). Orientation behavior to various odorant sources was studied in a two-choice olfactometer. No major differences were found between thelytokous and arrhenotokous wasps for this behavior. However, when host-searching behaviors were analyzed, some differences were found. Thelytokous females arrived sooner, foraged longer, and remained longer on non-infested guavas than arrhenotokous females. Individuals of both forms exhibited similar stereotyped behavioral sequences vis-à-vis guava treatments, with only slight deviations detected. Our results suggest that individuals from selected thelytokous and arrhenotokous O. anastrephae populations have similar abilities to search for tephritid larvae, supporting the use of thelytokous strains for augmentative releases.

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“…Because of their peculiar life history, most of the efforts in fruit fly control and eradication have focused on mature adults, e.g., bait traps (Vargas et al, 2003;McQuate et al, 2005), methyl eugenol utilizing (Cunningham, 1989;Shelly et al, 2004) and sterile insect technique (Wong et al, 1992;Hendrichs et al, 2002). However, some attention has been paid to the possibility of fly control by targeting late-instar larvae and pupae.…”

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Depth of pupation and survival of the Oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis (Diptera: Tephritidae) pupae at selected soil moistures

Hou

Xie

Zhang

2006

Appl. Entomol. Zool.

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Estimates of pupation depth and survival of the Oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel), are important for optimizing soil control and for better understanding its natural mortality in the agricultural system of Guangzhou, China. Late third-instar larvae were placed in soils having relative moistures of 0-100% for pupation. No pupae were found on the surface at soil moistures of 0-70%. Instead, more than 50% of the larvae pupated on the surface at soil moistures of 80, 90, and 100%. Most of the larvae preferred to pupate in less than 4 cm of the soils, while relatively few larvae moved more than 4 cm when the soils received too little water or too much water. The survival rate of pupae at 70% moisture level was low, and the pupae were unable to survive at soil moistures of 0, 80, 90, and 100%, while emergence rates exceeded 90% at the conditions of 10-60% moisture levels. Moreover, soil moistures had an influence on the average time to emergence (average time between the larvae release and the emergence of adults). Adult flies at 30% moisture level emerged earlier than those at the other moisture levels, whereas the average time to emergence at 70% moisture level was the longest.

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Suppression of a Mediterranean Fruit Fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Population with Concurrent Parasitoid and Sterile Fly Releases in Kula, Maui, Hawaii

Cited by 96 publications

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Inherited Sterility in Insects

Inherited Sterility in Insects

Are individuals from thelytokous and arrhenotokous populations equally adept as biocontrol agents? Orientation and host searching behavior of a fruit fly parasitoid

Depth of pupation and survival of the Oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis (Diptera: Tephritidae) pupae at selected soil moistures

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