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Anastrepha obliqua (Diptera: Tephritidae) mass-rearing: effect of relaxed colony management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2014

Dina Orozco-Dávila
Affiliation:
Programa Moscafrut (SAGARPA-IICA), Camino a los Cacahotales s/n,30860 Metapa de Domínguez,Chiapas,México
Trinidad Artiaga-López
Affiliation:
Programa Moscafrut (SAGARPA-IICA), Camino a los Cacahotales s/n,30860 Metapa de Domínguez,Chiapas,México
Ma. Del Refugio Hernández
Affiliation:
Programa Moscafrut (SAGARPA-IICA), Camino a los Cacahotales s/n,30860 Metapa de Domínguez,Chiapas,México
Julio Domínguez
Affiliation:
Programa Moscafrut (SAGARPA-IICA), Camino a los Cacahotales s/n,30860 Metapa de Domínguez,Chiapas,México
Emilio Hernández*
Affiliation:
Programa Moscafrut (SAGARPA-IICA), Camino a los Cacahotales s/n,30860 Metapa de Domínguez,Chiapas,México
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Abstract

In this study, the effects of relaxed mass-rearing conditions on Anastrepha obliqua (Macquart) production and quality were determined. Relaxed rearing conditions were defined by a reduction in the density of adult flies, from 80,000 to 60,000 flies per mass-rearing cage, and a reduction in the density of larvae, from 6.18 to 3.70 eggs/g of diet. In the parental generation, flies reared under relaxed conditions exhibited significant and a few non-significant changes – increased daily fecundity from 37 to 42 eggs per female, larval recovery from 80 to 91%, larval weight from 18.5 to 19.5 mg, pupation at 24 h from 92 to 96%, pupal weight from 13.5 to 14.3 mg, adult emergence from 92 to 94% and percentage of fliers from 89 to 90%. During the following 12 generations, non-significant differences were observed, but comparisons between relaxed and non-relaxed colonies were significant. The sexual competitiveness of males produced under relaxed conditions was similar to that of wild males.

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