LIFE – History Traits of Two Mediterannean Fruit Fly Populations on Key Overwintering Hosts And Different Temperatures

Abstract

The Mediterranean fruit fly (medfly) Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae), wildly expresses a remarkable ability to thrive and persist in a wide geographic range coping successfully with various biotic and abiotic stresses. Exploring the performance of medfly in winter hosts and different temperatures is expected to shed important light on understanding overwintering dynamics in temperate areas.
We studied a) the developmental responses of the immature stages to constant and fluctuating temperature regimes reared in both apples and bitter oranges, and b) the effects on survival and reproduction of the emerging adults .