Book Description

Overview of the Joint FAO/IAEA Division's involvement in fruit fly sterile insect technique programs. Population genetics of ceratitis capitata and phylogenetic relations with other tephritidae. Food foraging behavior of frugivorous fruit flies. Advances in attractant and trapping technologies for tephritids. Mass rearing of fruit flies: a demographic analysis. Nutritional, biochemical, and biological aspects of quality control in the olive fruit fly. Advances in measuring quality and assuring good field performance in mass reared fruit flies. Mutants, chromosomes, and genetic maps in the mediterranean fruit fly. Requirements and strategies for the development of genetic sex separation systems with special reference to the mediterranean fruit fly. Fruit fly problems in China and prospects for using the sterile insect technique. Fruit fly problems in Southeast Asia and efforts to meet them. Bioclimatic effects on the distribution of the mediterranean fruit fly (diptera: tephritidae) in maghreb. Fruit fly free areas: strategies to develop them. Pink bollworm sterile moth releases: suppression of established infestations and exclusion from noninfested areas. The MOSCAMED program: practical achievements and contributions to science. The melon eradication program in Japan. The eradication of the Queensland fruit fly, bactrocera tryoni, from Western Australia.