Strain of Staphylococcus Attractive to Laboratory Strain Anastrepha ludens (Diptera: Tephritidae)

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A bacterium isolated from the mouthparts of a laboratory-culture female Mexican fruit fly, Anastrepha ludens (Loew), was highly attractive to sugar-fed, protein-starved, 4–16-d-old male and female laboratory-cultured Mexican fruit flies. The bacterium was identified as a strain of Staphylococcus (RGM-1) matching most closely to S. aureus. This is the first report of a Staphylococcus attractive to a tephritid species. Four S. aureus strains purchased from the American Type Culture Collection were as attractive to A. ludens as RGM-1. Tryptic soy broth cultures of RGM-1 were compared with torula yeast-borax, a standard bait for Anastrepha, for attractiveness to Mexican fruit flies. Bacterial preparations generally were less attractive or at best equally attractive as torula yeast-borax when baits were tested in pairs of competing McPhail traps in a greenhouse flight chamber and in a grapefruit orchard.

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