The influence of host fruit and temperature on the body size of adult ceratitis capitata (diptera: Tephritidae) under laboratory and field conditions

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 931-938

  Navarro Campos, C ^a   Martinez Ferrer M T ^b   Campos, J M ^b   Fibla, J M ^b   Alcaide, J ^a   Bargues, L ^a   Marzal, C ^a   Garcia Mari F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

body size; host; Mediterranean fruit fly; sterile insect technique; temperature

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR TEMPERATURE; BODY SIZE; DISPERSION; FITNESS; FLY; FRUIT; LABORATORY METHOD; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; ORCHARD; STERILE RELEASE METHOD; TRAP (EQUIPMENT); WING MORPHOLOGY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CITRUS; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LARVA; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PRUNUS; TEMPERATURE; TEPHRITIDAE;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CITRUS; FEMALE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; LARVA; MALE; PRUNUS; TEMPERATURE; TEPHRITIDAE;

CERATITIS CAPITATA; CITRUS; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; TEPHRITIDAE;

EID: 80051756491     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN10302     Document Type: Article

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