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Title: Comparison of aggregation and feeding responses by normal and irradiated fruit flies, Ceratitis capitata and Anastrepha suspensa (Diptera: Tephritidae)

Abstract

Olfactory, aggregatory, and feeding responses of normal (untreated) laboratory stocks of Mediterranean fruit fly (medfly), Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann), and of Caribbean fruit fly (caribfly), Anastrepha suspensa (Loew), were compared to those of flies irradiated (10 krad in air) 2 days before eclosion. Females of both species consumed greater quantities of protein hydrolysate solutions, entered protein hydrolysate-baited olfactory traps, and aggregated on agar plates containing protein hydrolysate in greater numbers than males of the same age and condition. However, male medflies consumed more sucrose than did females of the same age and condition. In the medfly, irradiation resulted in reduced olfactory response, reduced total food intake by flies of both sexes, and a significant reduction in aggregation on and intake of protein hydrolysate by females and of sugar consumption by males. In the irradiated caribfly, there was a significant reduction in olfactory response of females to yeast hydrolysate. In both sexes, aggregation on and consumption of yeast hydrolysate were reduced. Effects of irradiation on feeding behavior are discussed in relation to the biology of the flies and their control by the sterile insect release method.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Israel
OSTI Identifier:
7107341
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Environ. Entomol.; (United States)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 14:6
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.; FRUIT FLIES; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; FOOD; IRRADIATION; OLFACTORY BULBS; SACCHAROSE; SEX DEPENDENCE; ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; BODY; BRAIN; CARBOHYDRATES; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DIPTERA; DISACCHARIDES; FLIES; INSECTS; INVERTEBRATES; NERVOUS SYSTEM; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANS; RADIATION EFFECTS; SACCHARIDES; 560152* - Radiation Effects on Animals- Animals

Citation Formats

Galun, R, Gothilf, S, Blondheim, S, Sharp, J L, Mazor, M, and Lachman, A. Comparison of aggregation and feeding responses by normal and irradiated fruit flies, Ceratitis capitata and Anastrepha suspensa (Diptera: Tephritidae). United States: N. p., 1985. Web.
Galun, R, Gothilf, S, Blondheim, S, Sharp, J L, Mazor, M, & Lachman, A. Comparison of aggregation and feeding responses by normal and irradiated fruit flies, Ceratitis capitata and Anastrepha suspensa (Diptera: Tephritidae). United States.
Galun, R, Gothilf, S, Blondheim, S, Sharp, J L, Mazor, M, and Lachman, A. 1985. "Comparison of aggregation and feeding responses by normal and irradiated fruit flies, Ceratitis capitata and Anastrepha suspensa (Diptera: Tephritidae)". United States.
@article{osti_7107341,
title = {Comparison of aggregation and feeding responses by normal and irradiated fruit flies, Ceratitis capitata and Anastrepha suspensa (Diptera: Tephritidae)},
author = {Galun, R and Gothilf, S and Blondheim, S and Sharp, J L and Mazor, M and Lachman, A},
abstractNote = {Olfactory, aggregatory, and feeding responses of normal (untreated) laboratory stocks of Mediterranean fruit fly (medfly), Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann), and of Caribbean fruit fly (caribfly), Anastrepha suspensa (Loew), were compared to those of flies irradiated (10 krad in air) 2 days before eclosion. Females of both species consumed greater quantities of protein hydrolysate solutions, entered protein hydrolysate-baited olfactory traps, and aggregated on agar plates containing protein hydrolysate in greater numbers than males of the same age and condition. However, male medflies consumed more sucrose than did females of the same age and condition. In the medfly, irradiation resulted in reduced olfactory response, reduced total food intake by flies of both sexes, and a significant reduction in aggregation on and intake of protein hydrolysate by females and of sugar consumption by males. In the irradiated caribfly, there was a significant reduction in olfactory response of females to yeast hydrolysate. In both sexes, aggregation on and consumption of yeast hydrolysate were reduced. Effects of irradiation on feeding behavior are discussed in relation to the biology of the flies and their control by the sterile insect release method.},
doi = {},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/7107341}, journal = {Environ. Entomol.; (United States)},
number = ,
volume = 14:6,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1985},
month = {Sun Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1985}
}