Interaction of Host Stimuli in the Ovipositional Response of the Mediterranean Fruit Fly (Diptera: Tephritidae)
作者:
R. Freeman,
J. R. Carey,
期刊:
Environmental Entomology
(OUP Available online 1990)
卷期:
Volume 19,
issue 4
页码: 1075-1080
ISSN:0046-225X
年代: 1990
DOI:10.1093/ee/19.4.1075
出版商: Oxford University Press
关键词: Insecta;Ceratitis capitata;ovipositional preference;rank order of host choice
数据来源: OUP
摘要:
Ovipositional preference of the Mediterranean fruit fly,Ceratitis capitataWiedemann, was examined using artificial hosts. Females laid significantly more eggs in larger hosts, spherical hosts, green and blue hosts, and they avoided hosts with papaya extract. Patterns of oviposition in tests with pairwise combinations of different host attributes showed that these preferences are integrated hierarchically. The preferred host shape was chosen over the preferred color, and host color was selected over fruit extract. Host size was the most important characteristic involved in eliciting oviposition by medflies.
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