Mediterranean Fruit Fly: Gamma-Irradiation in Nitrogen and Packaging for Sterile-Insect Release Program in Los Angeles12
- 31 July 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Economic Entomology
- Vol. 71 (4) , 610-612
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/71.4.610
Abstract
Ca. 600 million Mediterranean fruit flies, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann), were irradiated in a nitrogen atmosphere, packaged, and shipped to Los Angeles during a sterile-insect release program in 1975–76. Laboratory evaluations of the new procedure showed that ca. 99.95% of the processed males were sterile, that treated males were 40% as competitive as untreated males, and that treated males inseminated ca. 9 females/male.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: