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PLoS ONE, 2021 Lower elevations are generally thought to contain a greater abundance and diversity of insect communities and their natural enemies than higher elevations. It is less clear, however, how changes in seasons influence this pattern.
Paolo Salazar-Mendoza +4 more
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Biology, Ecology and Management of Tephritid Fruit Flies in China: A Review [PDF]
Insects, 2023 Simple Summary Tephritid fruit flies are widely distributed around the world and lay eggs in fruits and vegetables, resulting in rotting and economic losses.
Yuxin He, Yijuan Xu, Xiao Chen
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Insects, 2021 Dacini fruit flies mainly contain two genera, Bactrocera and Zeugodacus, and include many important pests of fruits and vegetables. Their life cycle is affected by various environmental cues.
Hajime Ono +2 more
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Automated Surveillance of Fruit Flies [PDF]
Sensors, 2017 Insects of the Diptera order of the Tephritidae family cause costly, annual crop losses worldwide. Monitoring traps are important components of integrated pest management programs used against fruit flies. Here we report the modification of typical, low-cost plastic traps for fruit flies by adding the necessary optoelectronic sensors to monitor the ...
Ilyas Potamitis +2 more
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Insulin control in fruit flies [PDF]
eLifeInvestigating how the production of insulin is regulated in fruit flies reveals surprising insights that may help to better understand how this process unfolds in humans.
Kayode O.
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Insects, 2020 Biological control has been the most commonly researched control tactic within fruit fly management programs. For the first time, a review is carried out covering parasitoids and predators of fruit flies (Tephritidae) from the Americas and Hawaii ...
Flávio R. M. Garcia +4 more
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The species composition, richness and diversity studies of fruit flies captured from the orchard of Nagpur mandarin [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 The present experiment was conducted to study the diversity of fruit flies in Nagpur mandarin orchard from different agro-ecological zones of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, India.
Sonal Nage +4 more
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Fruit Flies in Biomedical Research [PDF]
Genetics, 2015 Abstract Many scientists complain that the current funding situation is dire. Indeed, there has been an overall decline in support in funding for research from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Within the Drosophila field, some of us question how long this funding crunch will last as it demotivates
Michael F, Wangler +2 more
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Natural history of social and sexual behavior in fruit flies
Scientific Reports, 2020 The past 2 decades have seen fruit flies being widely adopted for research on social behavior and aggression. This fruitful research, however, has not been well tied to fruit flies’ natural history.
Reuven Dukas
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Fluorescent silica nanoparticles as an internal marker in fruit flies and their effects on survivorship and fertility [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Tracking and differentiating small insects at the individual levels requires appropriate marking materials because of their small size. This study proposes and investigates the use of fluorescent silica nanoparticles (FSNPs) as an internal marker owing ...
Nut Songvorawit +2 more
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