Influence of Mating on Oviposition by Screw-Worm Flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae)
- 30 September 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Medical Entomology
- Vol. 2 (3) , 214-216
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jmedent/2.3.214
Abstract
When both virgin and mated female screwworm flies, Cochliomyia hominivorax (Coquerel), were allowed to oviposit, 66% of the former and 88% of the latter group laid eggs. The egg production of the two groups was equal, but mated females oviposited more than twice as quickly as virgin females.Keywords
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