Male-Male Interactions in Caribbean Fruit Flies, Anastrepha suspensa (Loew) (Diptera: Tephritidae): Territorial Fights and Signalling Stimulation
- 1 December 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH in The Florida Entomologist
- Vol. 67 (4) , 542-547
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3494463
Abstract
Laboratory experiments were made on 2 aspects of male-male interactions in A. suspensa (Loew). Observations of males involved in territorial contests on a lab-caged grapefruit tree revealed that large size and residence gave males advantages in fights; large intruders usually were able to oust small residents. In a 2nd experiment, groups of individually-caged males began to emit sex pheromone and produce acoustic signals earlier in the daily sexual display period when in contact with other males than when isolated from them.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Analysis and Identification of Sounds Produced by the Male Caribbean Fruit Fly, Anastrepha suspensa1Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 1976