Fruit Flies Biology and Management [Paperback]

Fruit flies are enormously important economic pests, as California has learned over the past few years (remember the Mediterranean Fruit Fly?). The problem is expected to get worse, and issues of both basic research and control measures are very important for this pest. This book is the edited, camera-ready proceedings of a recent international symposium on fruit flies of economic importance. It covers current knowledge of fruit fly physiology, genetics, morphology and behavior. It discusses action programs for controlling and using fruit flies in agronomy, as well as the problem of fruit flies in the fruit growing industry.Fruit flies are enormously important economic pests, as California has learned over the past few years (remember the Mediterranean Fruit Fly?). The problem is expected to get worse, and issues of both basic research and control measures are very important for this pest. This book is the edited, camera-ready proceedings of a recent international symposium on fruit flies of economic importance. It covers current knowledge of fruit fly physiology, genetics, morphology and behavior. It discusses action programs for controlling and using fruit flies in agronomy, as well as the problem of fruit flies in the fruit growing industry.I Morphology and Biosystematics.- The Fruit Fly Biosystematic Information Data Base.- Mitochondrial DNA Variation in Anastrepha fraterculus.- Evolutionary Patterns in Specialist and Generalist Species of Anastrepha.- Evolutionary Biology of Certain Chilean Rhagoletis Species.- Scanning Electron Microscopy and Its Taxonomic Significance in Fruit Flies.- Taxonomy, Distribution, and Natural Host Plants of Anastrepha Fruit Flies in Mexico.- Fruit Flies in Belize, Central America.- Occurrence and Distribution of Anastrepha in Melon Production Areas in Brazil.- Morphology and Histology of Salivary and Pleural Glands of Anastrepha from Brazil.- II Physiology.- The Endocrine System of the Tephritidae.- Egg Development in Anastrepha sul3#