Quality control method to measure predator evasion in wild and mass-reared Mediterranean fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae)

Florida Entomologist

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 64-70

  Hendrichs, Martha A ^a   Wornoayporn, Viwat ^b   Katsoyannos, Byron ^c   Hendrichs, Jorge ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ceratitis capitata; Predation; Predator evasion; Sterile males; Survival; Tephritidae; Vespula germanica

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; FLY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PREDATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SURVIVAL; WILD POPULATION;

CERATITIS CAPITATA; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; TEPHRITIDAE; VESPULA GERMANICA;

EID: 34147105587     PISSN: 00154040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1653/0015-4040(2007)90[64:QCMTMP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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