Effect of Pre-release Storage on the Flight Ability of Sterile Mediterranean Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae)
Keywords:
chilling, emergence tower, pre-release knockdown, relaxed condition, tower storageAbstract
Although Mediterranean fruit flies (Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann); Diptera: Tephritidae) of the same tsl Vienna-7 genetic sexing strain are mass-reared in Guatemala (GT medflies) and Hawaii (HW medflies), the GT flies appeared to suffered greater adverse effects (in terms of flight ability) from crowding in the emergence towers than did the HW flies. Possible reasons for this difference involve source-related differences in fly size and shipping time (relative to pupal age) and suggest that managers adopt flexible procedures in handling flies from different sources and with differing biological traits.
Aunque las moscas Mediterráneo de la fruta (Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann), Diptera: Tephritidae), criadas en masa en Guatemala (GT mosca de la fruta) y Hawaii (HW mosca de la fruta), son de una cepa genética sexual Viena-7 tsl idéntica, las moscas GT parecían sufrir más adverso efectos (en términos de capacidad de vuelo) de amontonamiento en las torres de emergencia comparadas con las moscas HW. Las posibles razones para esta diferencia implican diferencias en el tamaño de las moscas y el tiempo de envío relacionados con el fuente de las moscas (en relación a la edad de pupa) y sugieren que los gerentes adopten procedimientos flexibles en el manejo de las moscas de diferentes fuentes y con características biológicas diferentes.
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