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Preference of Bactrocera spp. to methyl eugenol based different coloured traps

The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2020
Fruit flies, Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel) and Bactrocera zonata (Saunders) are highly destructive pests of peach, pear, guava and Kinnow mandarin causing up to 80, 70, 100 and 60-80% fruit infestation, respectively.
KAVITA BAJAJ, SANDEEP SINGH
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Pengaruh formulasi metil eugenol block plus terhadap tangkapan lalat buah Bactrocera spp. pada tanaman cabai

Jurnal Entomologi Indonesia, 2021
Fruit fly Bactrocera spp. is one of important pests in chili pepper. The use of methyl eugenol (ME) block plus as an attractant in traps is one method of controlling fruit flies populations.
Agus Susanto, Agus Dana Permana , Sri Hartati , Tohidin , Desy Natalia Br. Saragih   +4 more
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Quantification of food intake in Drosophila [PDF]

, 2009
Measurement of food intake in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is often necessary for studies of behaviour, nutrition and drug administration. There is no reliable and agreed method for measuring food intake of flies in undisturbed, steady state ...
Linda Partridge, Partridge, L., Wong, Richard, Matthew D. W. Piper, Partridge Linda, Richard Wong, Wong, R., Wertheim, B., Wertheim, B, Matthew D W Piper, Piper, Matthew D W, Piper, M.D.W., Partridge, Linda, Wertheim Bregje, Wong, R, Piper, MDW, Wertheim, Bregje, Piper Matthew D. W., Wertheim, Bregje; id_orcid, Partridge, L, Piper, Matthew, Bregje Wertheim, Piper, M., Raine, N.E., Wong Richard   +24 more
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Host specialization and species richness of fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) in a New Guinea rain forest [PDF]

, 2005
Frugivorous dacine fruit flies were studied in a lowland tropical rain forest in Papua New Guinea to determine their host specificity, abundance, and the number of species attacking various plant species.
Drew, Dick, Clifford, Barbara, Balagawi, Solomon, Clarke, Anthony R., Drew, Richard A.I., Novotny, Vojtech   +5 more
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Recent Advancements in Studies on Chemosensory Mechanisms Underlying Detection of Semiochemicals in Dacini Fruit Flies of Economic Importance (Diptera: Tephritidae)

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, Alvin Kah-Wei Hee, Hongbo Jiang   +2 more
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Elements of Feed-Forward and Feedback Control in Drosophila Body Saccades [PDF]

, 2007
I have developed a new experimental preparation of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. A fly is glued to a steel pin, which is held in the field between two magnets such that the fly is free to rotate about only one axis. Such "magnetically tethered"
Bender, John Andrew
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Fishing for flies: testing the efficacy of “stink stations” for promoting blow flies as pollinators in mango orchards

Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2023
Pollinator communities are composed of diverse groups of insects, with radically different life histories and resource needs. Blow flies are known to visit a variety of economically important crop plants.
Jonathan Finch, Amy-Marie Gilpin, James Cook   +2 more
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Mango Fruit Fly Trap Detection Using Different Wireless Communications

Agronomy, 2023
Fruit flies cause production losses in mango orchards affecting fruit quality. A National Campaign against Fruit Flies (NCFF) evaluates farm status using the fruit flies per trap per day index (FTD).
Federico Hahn, Salvador Valle, Roberto Rendón, Oneyda Oyorzabal, Alondra Astudillo   +4 more
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Towards Continuous Surveillance of Fruit Flies Using Sensor Networks and Machine Vision [PDF]

, 2009
the most destructive insect pest of horticulture, attacking nearly all fruit and vegetable crops. This project has researched and prototyped a system for monitoring fruit flies so that authorities can be alerted when a fly enters a crop in a more ...
Jinglan Zhang, Pham, Binh L., Paul Roe, Zhang, Jinglan, Anthony Clarke, Roe, Paul, Clarke, Anthony R., Mark Richards, Richards, Mark A., Binh Pham, Yuee Liu, Liu, Yuee   +11 more
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Anti-instinctive Learning Behavior Revealed by Locomotion-Triggered Mild Heat Stress in Drosophila

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2020
Anti-instinctive learning, an ability to modify an animal's innate behaviors in ways that go against one's innate tendency, can confer great evolutionary advantages to animals and enable them to better adapt to the changing environment.
Ruichen Sun, Ruichen Sun, Joseph Delly, Emily Sereno, Sean Wong, Xinyu Chen, Yuxuan Wang, Yan Huang, Ralph J. Greenspan, Ralph J. Greenspan   +9 more
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