Use of toxic bait to manage the south american fruit fly in apple orchards in Southern Brazil [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Fruticultura, 2021 Anastrepha fraterculus the South American fruit fly, is an important insect pest in apple orchards of southern Brazil, especially in small farms, where it often causes total crop loss.
Rafael Borges +5 more
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The South American Fruit Fly: An Important Pest Insect With RNAi-Sensitive Larval Stages [PDF]
Frontiers in Physiology, 2019 RNA interference (RNAi) technology has been used in the development of approaches for pest control. The presence of some essential genes, the so-called “core genes,” in the RNAi machinery is crucial for its efficiency and robust response in gene ...
Naymã Dias +6 more
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Optimization of the sterilizing doses and overflooding ratios for the South American fruit fly. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) is an autocidal control method that relies on inundative releases of sterilized mass-reared insects. This technology has been used in several area-wide programmes for the suppression/eradication of fruit fly populations.
Thiago Mastrangelo +4 more
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Improvement of the Mass-Rearing Protocols for the South American Fruit Fly for Application of the Sterile Insect Technique [PDF]
Insects, 2021 The existing rearing protocols for Anastrepha fraterculus must be reviewed to make economically viable the production of sterile flies for their area-wide application.
Thiago Mastrangelo +6 more
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Male courtship behavior of the South American fruit fly, Anastrepha fraterculus, from an Argentinean laboratory strain. [PDF]
J Insect Sci, 2011 The South American fruit fly Anastrepha fraterculus (Wiedemann) (Diptera: Tephritidae) is a pest of fruit species of warm regions of the Americas, including Argentina. Some authors claim that this taxon includes a group of cryptic species. In order to evaluate possible targets of sexual selection, it is necessary to analyze ethological aspects of male ...
Gomez Cendra P +3 more
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Toxicity and residual effects of toxic baits with spinosyns on the South American fruit fly [PDF]
Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, 2018 : The objective of this work was to assess the lethal concentration and lethal time (LC and LT) of spinosad and spinetoram, combined with different food lures, and their residual effects on South American fruit fly (Anastrepha fraterculus).
Inana Xavier Schutze +4 more
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South American Fruit Fly, Anastrepha fraterculus (Wiedemann) (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae)
EDIS, 2012 This species is of great economic importance because of the wide variety of plants that it attacks and its extensive distribution. In most of South America, it probably is the most important species of Anastrepha.
Howard V. Weems
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Viability of Cabralea canjerana extracts to control the South American fruit fly, Anastrepha fraterculus. [PDF]
J Insect Sci, 2014 Several representatives of Meliaceae contain biologically active compounds that are toxic to insects with few negative effects on the environment and humans. Our study evaluated the activity of ethyl acetate and ethanol extracts from the fruit and seeds of Cabralea canjerana (Vellozo) Mart (Sapindales: Meliaceae) on Anastrepha fraterculus (Wiedemann ...
Magrini FE +7 more
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Spatial and temporal distribution of South American fruit fly in vineyards [PDF]
Revista Ceres, 2019 The South American fruit fly Anastrepha fraterculus (Wied., 1830) is one of the major insect pests of economic importance in vineyards of Southern Brazil.
Juliete Maria Frighetto +4 more
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South American Fruit Fly, Anastrepha fraterculus (Wiedemann) (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae)
EDIS, 2004 Anastrepha fraterculus was described in the genus Dacus by Wiedemann (1830), based on specimens from Brazil. This species is of great economic importance because of the wide variety of plants which it attacks and its extensive distribution.
Howard V. Weems, Jr.
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