The Mediterranean fruit fly (referred to as Med fly, or Moscamed in Spanish), Ceratitis capitata, is one of the most destructive fruit pests in the world. The United State has suffered infestations of Med fly in California, Texas, and Florida, but...

Bactrocera Ceratitis Paracantha Rhagoletis Tephritis Urophora Euaresta hundreds...

Enemy-free space is a potentially important factor affecting host plant use by phytophagous insects. In particular, escape from parasitoids, predators and competitors could mediate a successful host shift by compensating for decreased feeding performance on a new plant. Here I investigate the effects that...

Key words. Hymenoptera, Eurytomidae, Diptera, Tephritidae, entomophytophagy, superparasitism, gall ecology, local host specialisation, population dynamics, Eurytoma robusta, Urophora cardui Abstract. Eurytoma robusta Mayr (Chalcidoidea) exploits host galls either as a primary or secondary parasitoid, an entomophytophagous inquiline or occasionally even as a predator....