Performance and feeding behavior of Ceratitis capitata: Comparison of a wild population and a laboratory population

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 67-72

  Bravo, Iara Sordi Joachim ^a   Zucoloto, Fernando Sérgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Diet nutritional values; Diptera; Feeding behavior; Fruit flies; Insects; Tephritidae

Indexed keywords

FEEDING BEHAVIOUR; FOOD PREFERENCE; FRUITFLY; LABORATORY POPULATION; REPRODUCTIVE PERFORMANCE; WILD POPULATION;

CARICA PAPAYA; CERATITIS CAPITATA; COFFEA ARABICA; DIPTERA; TEPHRITIDAE;

EID: 0031943984     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.1998.00305.x     Document Type: Article

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