Larger Egg Clutches Following Host Deprivation in Colonized Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae)
- 31 March 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Economic Entomology
- Vol. 79 (2) , 392-394
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/79.2.392
Abstract
Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) females that had been held without access to an oviposition site (unexposed) and then presented with a host fruit laid larger egg clutches on the first ovi position than did counterparts pre-exposed to a host fruit. Subsequent ovipositions by initially unexposed females resulted in clutches of the same size as those laid by pre-exposed. The history of the host exposure of the female was more important than the number of mature ovarian eggs in determining the clutch size.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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