Influence of Previous Experience with Host Plant Foliage on Behavior of Mediterranean Fruit Fly Females

dc.contributor.author Prokopy, Ronald J. en_US
dc.contributor.author Aluja, Martin en_US
dc.contributor.author Papaj, Daniel R. en_US
dc.contributor.author Roitberg, Bernard D. en_US
dc.contributor.author Wong, Tim T.Y. en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-09-09T01:24:00Z
dc.date.available 2009-09-09T01:24:00Z
dc.date.issued 1989 en_US
dc.description.abstract Consistent with the findings of a previous study, foliage-naive gravid females of the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann), when released onto the foliage of non-fruiting host plants in a Held cage, spent more time on the foliage of citrus than of tomato plants of comparable size. We found here that 3 days of previous experience with the foliage of citrus or tomato plants did not detectably alter the nature of this response pattern. This suggests that prior experience of medfly females with plant foliage (in contrast to prior experience with plant fruit) is probably of negligible biological significance. We also found that the response pattern of medfly females of a strain cultured in the laboratory for more than 300 generations was qualitatively similar to but quantitatively different from the response pattern of wild medflies. en_US
dc.format.extent 6 pages en_US
dc.identifier.citation Prokopy RJ, Aluja M, Papaj DR, Roitberg BD, Wong TTY. 1989. Influence of previous experience with host plant foliage on behavior of Mediterranean fruit fly females. Proc Hawaiian Entomol Soc 29:97-101. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0073-134X en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11244
dc.publisher Hawaiian Entomological Society en_US
dc.title Influence of Previous Experience with Host Plant Foliage on Behavior of Mediterranean Fruit Fly Females en_US
dc.type Article en_US
dc.type.dcmi Text en_US
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