Artificial rearing of the peach fruit fly Bactrocera zonata (Diptera: Tephritidae)

Sookar, P.; Alleck, M.; Ahseek, N.; Permalloo, S.; Bhagwant, S.; Chang, Chiou Ling

doi:10.1017/s1742758414000125

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“…The collected eggs were transferred to an artificial diet composed of sugarcane bagasse (6.0%), ground maize (6.0%), sugarcane (11.0%), waste brewer’s yeast (6.0%), wheat bran (6.0%), benzoic acid (0.1%), nipagen (0.1%), and water (64.8%) at the rate of 0.8 mL eggs/kg diet. ( Sookar et al, in press ). The trays with developing larvae were kept at 25 ± 1°C and 60–70% RH.…”

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Effect of Metarhizium anisopliae on the fertility and fecundity of two species of fruit flies and horizontal transmission of mycotic infection

Sookar

Bhagwant

Allymamod

2014

Journal of Insect Science

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In Mauritius, the peach fruit fly, Bactrocera zonata Saunders (Diptera: Tephritidae), and the melon fly, Bactrocera cucurbitae (Coquillett), are the major pest of fruits and vegetables, respectively. Fruit growers make use of broad-spectrum insecticides to protect their crops from fruit fly attack. This method of fruit fly control is hazardous to the environment and is a threat to beneficial insects. The entomopathogenic fungus, Metarhizium anisopliae (Metchnikoff) Sorokin (Hypocreales: Clavicipitaceae), which was isolated from the soils of Mauritius, was used to investigate whether fungus-treated adult fruit flies could transfer conidia to non-treated flies during mating, and whether fungal infection could have an effect on mating behavior, fecundity, and fertility of the two female fruit fly species. When treated male flies were maintained together with non-treated female flies, they were able to transmit infection to untreated females, resulting in high mortalities. Similarly, fungus-infected female flies mixed with untreated males also transmitted infections to males, also resulting in high mortalities. Infection by M. anisopliae also resulted in the reduction of the number of eggs produced by females of B. cucurbitae. The results suggest that M anisopliae may have potential for use in integrated control programs of B. zonata and B. cucurbitae using the sterile insect technique in Mauritius.

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Effect of Metarhizium anisopliae on the fertility and fecundity of two species of fruit flies and horizontal transmission of mycotic infection

Sookar

Bhagwant

Allymamod

2014

Journal of Insect Science

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“…Zeugodacus cucurbitae has been considered a major pest species of commercially grown cucurbits in large parts of Asia (Kapoor 1989, Koyama 1989) and Hawaii (Harris 1989) for a long time. However, in the Afrotropical region, not much research was devoted to this species in comparison to other cucurbit infesting dacines, except for La Réunion (White and Elson-Harris 1994, Vayssières 1999, Ryckewaert et al 2010) and Mauritius (Sookar et al 2012, 2013). This is currently changing due to the recent observations on its distribution and dominance in particular crops (see below under ‘host range and interspecific competition’).…”

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A review of the current knowledge on Zeugodacus cucurbitae (Coquillett) (Diptera, Tephritidae) in Africa, with a list of species included in Zeugodacus

Meyer¹,

Delatte²,

Mwatawala³

et al. 2015

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This paper reviews all available information regarding the occurrence and biology of the melon fly, Zeugodacus cucurbitae (Coquillett), in the Afrotropical Region, including data on invasion history, distribution patterns, population genetics, host range, and interspecific competition. Although limited intraspecific variability has been observed within the region regarding the above mentioned aspects, there seems to be no indication that Zeugodacus cucurbitae represents a species complex. A checklist of all of the species included in Zeugodacus as recently proposed by Virgilio et al. (2015) is provided.

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“…The positive correlations between pupal biometrics, notably weight and length, with biological aspects such as fertility, fecundity, and longevity reinforce the premise that heavier pupae are extremely desirable in mass rearing of fruit flies based on artificial diets since these lead to higher performing adult insects (Sookar et al, 2014).…”

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Dietas Artificiais para a Criação de Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann 1824) (Diptera: Tephritidae)

Cartaxo

Mielezrski²,

Santos³

et al. 2022

Com. Sci.

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Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann 1824) (Diptera: Tephritidae) é um inseto polífago responsável por severos danos a fruticultura mundial. Estratégias de controle requerem estudos laboratoriais em que são demandadas grandes quantidades de indivíduos dessa praga, necessitando portanto, da implantação de criações massais. O sucesso dessas criações é dependente do uso de dietas artificiais, que representam um dos principais custos desse sistema. Nesse sentido, objetivou-se avaliar o crescimento e desenvolvimento de C. capitata sob diferentes dietas artificiais. A inoculação dos ovos de C. capitata foi realizado em dietas artificiais a base de batata-doce, cará, cenoura, jerimum e macaxeira, todos na versão crua e cozida, totalizando dez tratamentos, sendo a cenoura crua o tratamento controle. Observou-se as seguintes variáveis biométricas e biológicas de C. capitata: viabilidade larval e pupal, fecundidade, fertilidade e razão sexual, além dos tempos de pré-oviposição, oviposição e de vida dos adultos. Obteve-se resultados promissores com batata-doce e jerimum, proporcionando insetos maiores e mais pesados, boa fecundidade e fertilidade, maior tempo de oviposição e maior longevidade, cujos resultados foram semelhantes ou superiores aos obtidos com a dieta a base de cenoura crua. Em contraste, a dieta a base de macaxeira crua não permitiu a eclosão das larvas. Resultados insatisfatórios também foram obtidos com as dietas a base de cará, tanto cru como cozido, o que inviabiliza sua recomendação para utilização em dietas artificiais para esse inseto. As dietas artificiais derivadas de jerimum e batata-doce, crus ou cozidos, se mostram eficientes como substitutos da cenoura em dietas artificiais de C. capitata.

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Artificial rearing of the peach fruit fly Bactrocera zonata (Diptera: Tephritidae)

Cited by 20 publications

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Effect of Metarhizium anisopliae on the fertility and fecundity of two species of fruit flies and horizontal transmission of mycotic infection

Effect of Metarhizium anisopliae on the fertility and fecundity of two species of fruit flies and horizontal transmission of mycotic infection

A review of the current knowledge on Zeugodacus cucurbitae (Coquillett) (Diptera, Tephritidae) in Africa, with a list of species included in Zeugodacus

Dietas Artificiais para a Criação de Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann 1824) (Diptera: Tephritidae)

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