Effects of Mating on Fecundity of the Apple Maggot, Rhagoletis pomonella (Walsh)
- 1 March 1965
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Canadian Entomologist
- Vol. 97 (3) , 276-279
- https://doi.org/10.4039/ent97276-3
Abstract
In the laboratory, it has been found that females of R. pomonella (Walsh) mating frequently throughout their lives laid about twice as many fertile eggs as females allowed to mate only a few times during their first two weeks after emergence. However, mating had little effect on the total numbers of eggs laid. Females mating frequently averaged 395 eggs and 95% were fertile whereas those mating only a few times averaged 360 eggs and 46% were fertile.Keywords
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