Temperature Control as an Alternative to Ethylene Dibromide Fumigation for the Control of Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Papaya

1 June 1984

journal article
research article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Economic Entomology

Vol. 77 (3) , 683-686
https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/77.3.683

Abstract

Data are presented for the thermal stresses which induce mortality in eggs and larvae of the oriental fruit fly, Dacus dorsalis Hendel. Thermal treatment of the fruit, including exposure to microwave radiation and a hot water dip, resulted in mortality at the probit 9 level for egg-infested papaya fruit.

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