Short Range Dispersal of Mass-RearedPsyttalia fletcheri(Hymenoptera: Braconidae), Parasitoids ofBactrocera cucurbitae(Diptera: Tephritidae)
作者:
R. H. Messing,
M. F. Purcell,
L. M. Klungness,
期刊:
Environmental Entomology
(OUP Available online 1995)
卷期:
Volume 24,
issue 5
页码: 1338-1343
ISSN:0046-225X
年代: 1995
DOI:10.1093/ee/24.5.1338
出版商: Oxford University Press
关键词: fruit flies;Tephritidae;parasitoids;dispersal;augmentative biological control
数据来源: OUP
摘要:
Approximately 288,000 adultPsyttalia fletcheri(Silvestri), parasitoids of melon fly larvae,Bactrocera cucurbitae(Coquillett), were mass reared in an insectary and released over a 9-wk period in a field containing cucumbers, tomatoes, and zucchini. Dispersing parasitoids were recaptured on yellow sphere traps arranged in a rosette pattern of concentric rings from 10 to 40 m from the release point. At a distance of 10 m from the release point, ≈85% of the recaptured females and 67% of the recaptured males were caught on traps higher than the tallest crop height. Males had a strongly unimodal directional distribution with a mean dispersal vector of 202°, which is downwind from prevailing northeasterly trade winds. Female movement was more variable in direction than males, with a bimodal dispersal distribution to both upwind and downwind directions.
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