Infestation Patterns of Mediterranean Fruit Fly and the Oriental Fruit Fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) in the Kula Area of Maui, Hawaii
- 1 August 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Environmental Entomology
- Vol. 12 (4) , 1031-1039
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/12.4.1031
Abstract
Infestation rates of the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann), and the oriental fruit fly, Dacus dorsalis Hendel, were studied in a 13-km2 area of Kula, Maui, in Hawaii from 1978 to 1981 by counting fruits on trees and collecting and holding fruits in the laboratory for adult eclosion. The number of trees in the area, number of fruits per tree, percent infestation of the fruits, number of parasitoids, and number of pupae reared per infested fruit were examined. Loquats, peaches, and figs produced the largest number of flies. Other minor fruits produced relatively small numbers of flies. More C capitata than D. dorsalis were recorded from peach fruits at the higher elevations than at the lower elevations. Eclosion data showed that both fruit fly species developed successfully together in individual peach fruits, the larvae of one species causing no apparent reduction in the number of larvae of the other species in those fruits.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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