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Olive Fruit Fly Symbiont Population: Impact of Metamorphosis [PDF]

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022
The current symbiotic view of the organisms also calls for new approaches in the way we perceive and manage our pest species. The olive fruit fly, the most important olive tree pest, is dependent on an obligate bacterial symbiont to its larvae ...
Catarina Campos, Luis Gomes, Fernando T. Rei, Tania Nobre   +3 more
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Prospects for integrated control of olive fruit fly are promising in California [PDF]

California Agriculture, 2003
The recent invasion of California by the olive fruit fly has the potential to devastate commercial olive production throughout the state. Fortunately, much is known about this pest in Europe, and prospects for olive fruit fly control in
Timothy R Collier, Robert A Van Steenwyk
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High temperature affects olive fruit fly populations in California's Central Valley

California Agriculture, 2008
Olive fruit fly commonly infests olives in California's Central Valley. Field studies indicate that trap counts for olive fruit fly adults in pesticide-free sites decrease in mid-and late summer and then rebound from September to November.
Kent Daane, Marshall Johnson, Kris Lynn-Patterson, Hannah Nadel, Susan B. Opp, Judy Stewart-Leslie, Xin-Geng Wang   +6 more
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Role of Fruit Epicuticular Waxes in Preventing Bactrocera oleae (Diptera: Tephritidae) Attachment in Different Cultivars of Olea europaea

Insects, 2020
The olive fruit fly Bactrocera oleae (Diptera: Tephritidae) is the major pest of cultivated olives (Olea europaea L.), and a serious threat in all of the Mediterranean Region.
Manuela Rebora, Gianandrea Salerno, Silvana Piersanti, Elena Gorb, Stanislav Gorb   +4 more
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Olive Landscape Affects Bactrocera oleae Abundance, Movement and Infestation

Agronomy, 2021
The economic importance of Bactrocera oleae (Rossi) and the problems associated with insecticides make necessary new management approaches, including deeper biological knowledge and its relationship with landscape structure.
Marta Ortega, Natalia Moreno, Cristina E. Fernández, Susana Pascual   +3 more
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Bactrocera oleae (Rossi) (Diptera: Tephritidae) Response to Different Blends of Olive Fruit Fly-Associated Yeast Volatile Compounds as Attractants

Agronomy, 2021
The olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae (Rossi) is economically the most important olive pest, causing yield losses in all olive growing areas where is detected.
Ana Bego, Filipa Burul, Marijana Popović, Maja Jukić Špika, Maja Veršić Bratinčević, Filip Pošćić, Elda Vitanović   +6 more
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Olive fruit fly and its obligate symbiont Candidatus Erwinia dacicola: Two new symbiont haplotypes in the Mediterranean basin.

PLoS ONE, 2021
The olive fruit fly, specialized to become monophagous during several life stages, remains the most important olive tree pest with high direct production losses, but also affecting the quality, composition, and inherent properties of the olives.
Tânia Nobre
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COI Haplotyping and Comparative Microbiomics of the Peach Fruit Fly, an Emerging Pest of Egyptian Olive Orchards

Biology, 2022
The peach fruit fly, Bactrocera zonata (Tephritidae), is economically relevant as a highly polyphagous pest infesting over 50 host plants including commercial fruit and horticultural crops. As an invasive species, B.
Mona Awad, Haifa Ben Gharsa, Omnia Abdullah ElKraly, Andreas Leclerque, Sherif M. Elnagdy   +4 more
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Control of the olive fruit fly using genetics-enhanced sterile insect technique

BMC Biology, 2012
Background The olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae, is the major arthropod pest of commercial olive production, causing extensive damage to olive crops worldwide. Current control techniques rely on spraying of chemical insecticides.
Ant Thomas, Koukidou Martha, Rempoulakis Polychronis, Gong Hong-Fei, Economopoulos Aris, Vontas John, Alphey Luke   +6 more
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High Quality Extra Virgin Olive Oil from Olives Attacked by the Olive Fruit Fly, Bactrocera Oleae (Rossi) (Diptera Tephritidae): Which Is the Tolerable Limit? Data from Experimental ‘Nocellara Del Belice’ and ‘Cerasuola’ Olive Groves in Sicily

Chemical Engineering Transactions, 2017
The infestation due to the olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae (Rossi), the key pest in most of world olive groves, has been monitored in six years, from 2004 to 2008 and in 2014, in eight coastal Sicilian olive groves consisting of ‘Cerasuola’ and ...
V. Caleca, G. Antista, G. Campisi, T. Caruso, G. Lo Verde, M. Maltese, R. Rizzo, D. Planeta   +7 more
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