Fruit Fly Pests: A World Assessment of Their Biology and Management

A book of national and international importance, Fruit Fly Pests is an exhaustive compendium of information (with data provided by more than 100 contributors) that will appeal to a wide variety of readers. With huge losses experienced annually from fruit fly devastation, information on these high-profile insects is important to commercial fruit and vegetable growers, marketing exporters, government regulatory agencies, and the scientific community. Fruit flies impose a considerable resource tax, and the ones who suffer range from shippers to end users. The demand for world-wide plant protection requires up-to-date research information. This book meets that need.This book contains the proceedings from the most recent International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance. Here you will find the major presentations given at the symposium, with an added feature - overviews from experts on topics not covered directly by participants in the symposium, filling in gaps in the current literature. The resulting publication is the most up-to-date and readable text to be found anywhere on the subject of tephritids.

Table of Contents:
PLENARY SESSION Opening Address, Jorge Hendrichs Welcoming Remarks, Richard Gaskalla Welcoming Remarks, Robert M. Faust Keynote Address: Message from a Non-Pest Fruit Fly, Linda Partridge PART I. BEHAVIOR Overview of Research on the Behavior of Fruit Flies, Peter J. Landolt and Sergeo Quilici Behaviors of California Fruit Flies and the Evolution of Tephritid Mating Systems, D.H. Headrick and R.D. Goeden Acoustical Comparisons of Calling Songs from Anastrepha Species in Brazil, R.W. Mankin, A. Malavasi, and C. Aquino Comparative Mating Systems of Two Rhagoletis Species: The Adaptive Significance of Mate Guarding, Susan B. Opp, Steven A. Spisak, Aparna Telang, and Sha S. Hammond Sexual Behavior and Signals Used for Mating of Bactrocera correcta (Bezzi), Ratana Poramarcom and Visut Baimai Influence of Some Visual Stimuli on the Selection of Oviposition Site by Ceratitis (Pterandrus) rosa Karsch, S. Quilici and L. Rivry Ovipositional Responses to Apple in a Caged Tree by Anastrepha fraterculus in Southern Brazil, R.L. Sugayama, A. Malavasi, I. Nora, and E.S. Branco PART II. ATTRACTANTS AND TRAPPING Olfactory Semiochemicals of Tephritids, Eric B. Jang and Douglas M. Light Pheromones of Mediterranean Fruit Fly: Presumed Mode of Action and Implications for Improved Trapping Techniques, P.E. Howse and J.J. Knapp Morphology of Adult Male Rectum of Seven Species of Anastrepha from Brazil and Mating Behavior Correlations, M.D. Barros and A. Malavasi Volatile Components from the Salivary Glands of Calling Males of the South American Fruit Fly, Anastrepha fraterculus: Partial Identification and Behavioral Activity, Ivanildo S. De Lima, Philip E. Howse, and Ian D.R. Stevens Attraction of Female Mediterranean Fruit Flies to Identified Components of the Male-Produced Pheromone: Qualitative Aspects of Major, Intermediate, and Minor Components, Eric B. Jang and Douglas M. Light Plant Volatiles Evoke and Modulate Tephrit

About the Author :
McPheron, Bruce A.; Steck, Gary J.

Review :
"Fruit Fly Pests is the definitive work on fruit flies, containing 100 contributions from experts all over the world." Fly Pests is the definitive work on fruit flies, containing 100 contributions from experts all over the world."