caa a22 4500 475834631 CHVBK 20180406123850.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1026519004276 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1026519004276 Effects of depth of oviposition dish and age ofrearing host on efficiency of mass production of thetephritid fruit fly parasitoid Psyttaliafletcheri [Elektronische Daten] [R.C. Bautista, N. Mochizuki, J.P. Spencer, E.J. Harris, D.M. Ichimura] Psyttalia fletcheri is a solitary larval endoparasitoid ofthe melon fruit fly, Bactrocera cucurbitae. Initiallycolonized in 1985, mass production of P.fletcheri for the last 10 years has beenfacilitated with a rearing method developed earlier.However, the level of parasitoid recovery seldomexceeded 35%. We examined the parasitoid'sdevelopmental biology and behavior to identify theprocedures that may improve efficiency ofproduction. We found that by limiting the depth ofoviposition dish (receptacle that holds the hostlarvae during exposure to female parasitoids) to 4 mm and using 4-d-old (late 2nd instar) B.cucurbitae larvae for oviposition, parasitoid yieldwas increased two-fold. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 larval-pupal parasitoid nationallicence mass-rearing nationallicence melon fruit fly nationallicence Bactrocera cucurbitae nationallicence Bautista R.C. US Pacific Basin Agricultural ResearchCenter, USDA-ARS, 2727 Woodlawn Drive, 96822, Honolulu, HI, USA aut Mochizuki N. US Pacific Basin Agricultural ResearchCenter, USDA-ARS, 2727 Woodlawn Drive, 96822, Honolulu, HI, USA aut Spencer J.P. US Pacific Basin Agricultural ResearchCenter, USDA-ARS, 2727 Woodlawn Drive, 96822, Honolulu, HI, USA aut Harris E.J. US Pacific Basin Agricultural ResearchCenter, USDA-ARS, 2727 Woodlawn Drive, 96822, Honolulu, HI, USA aut Ichimura D.M. US Pacific Basin Agricultural ResearchCenter, USDA-ARS, 2727 Woodlawn Drive, 96822, Honolulu, HI, USA aut BioControl Kluwer Academic Publishers 45/4(2000-12-01), 389-399 1386-6141 45:4<389 2000 45 10526 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026519004276 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026519004276 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bautista R.C. US Pacific Basin Agricultural ResearchCenter, USDA-ARS, 2727 Woodlawn Drive, 96822, Honolulu, HI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mochizuki N. US Pacific Basin Agricultural ResearchCenter, USDA-ARS, 2727 Woodlawn Drive, 96822, Honolulu, HI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Spencer J.P. US Pacific Basin Agricultural ResearchCenter, USDA-ARS, 2727 Woodlawn Drive, 96822, Honolulu, HI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Harris E.J. US Pacific Basin Agricultural ResearchCenter, USDA-ARS, 2727 Woodlawn Drive, 96822, Honolulu, HI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ichimura D.M. US Pacific Basin Agricultural ResearchCenter, USDA-ARS, 2727 Woodlawn Drive, 96822, Honolulu, HI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- BioControl Kluwer Academic Publishers 45/4(2000-12-01), 389-399 1386-6141 45:4<389 2000 45 10526 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer