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MATING BEHAVIOR IN RHAGOLETIS POMONELLA (DIPTERA: TEPHRITIDAE): I. SITE OF ASSEMBLY1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Ronald J. Prokopy
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Texas, Austin
Edward W. Bennett
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Texas, Austin
Guy L. Bush
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Texas, Austin

Abstract

The results of systematically conducted field observations revealed that the site of male:female assembly for mating in apple maggot flies, Rhagoletis pomonella (Walsh), was exclusively on the fruit of the larval host plant. Laboratory observations were in strong agreement with this finding.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1971

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