EFFECT OF ADULT DIET ON SIGNALING ACTIVITY, MATE ATTRACTION, AND MATING SUCCESS IN MALE MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT FLIES (DIPTERA: TEPHRITIDAE)

By T. Shelly, S. Kennelly, D. McInnis. 2002

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Abstract Field experiments were performed to examine the effect of adult diet on calling activity, female attraction, and mating success in male Mediterranean fruit flies, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann). In all tests, comparisons were drawn between males fed sugar only (“protein-deprived” males) and males fed a protein-sugar mixture (“protein-fed” males). In tests of long-distance attraction, aggregations consisting of protein-deprived males exclusively or protein-fed males exclusively were established in a coffee field, and females were released from a central release point. Protein-fed and protein-deprived males displayed similar calling levels, but approximately twice as many female sightings were recorded at groups of protein-fed males than at groups of protein-deprived males. A second test of female attraction compared single groups of protein-deprived and protein-fed males within the canopy of a field-caged host plant. As before, calling activity did not vary with diet, and in this case numbers of female sightings were also similar between aggregations of protein-fed vs. protein-deprived males. In mating trials conducted on field-caged host plants, protein-fed males achieved significantly more matings than protein-deprived males. These results are compared with other recent studies on the nutritional ecology of male Mediterranean fruit flies.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. T. Shelly
2. B. Yuval
3. S. Kennelly
4. E. Jurkevitch
5. M. Ben-Yosef
6. R. Kaspi
7. Phillip W Taylor
8. R. W. Elwood

In Insect Science

1. T. Shelly
2. B. Yuval
3. S. Kennelly
4. Phillip W Taylor
5. E. Jurkevitch
6. M. Ben-Yosef
7. R. Kaspi
8. J. Hendrichs

Citations in the corpus

• INFLUENCE OF MALE DIET ON MALE MATING SUCCESS AND LONGEVITY AND FEMALE REMATING IN THE MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT FLY (DIPTERA: TEPHRITIDAE) UNDER LABORATORY CONDITIONS (2002, background): “For example, a recent study on the medfly (Shelly & McInnis 2001) demonstrated that exposure to the odor of ginger root oil dramatically enhanced the mating success of mass-reared males.”
• Effect of bacteria on nutritional status and reproductive success of the Mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis capitata (2008, result): “Similar results are found in other laboratory trials ( Churchill-Stanland et al. , 1986; Taylor & Yuval, 1999; Kaspi et al. , 2000 ) as well as in the field ( Shelly et al. , 2002 ).”
• EFFECTS OF POST-TENERAL NUTRITION ON REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS OF MALE MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT FLIES (DIPTERA: TEPHRITIDAE) (2002, background): “Recently, Shelly et al. (2002), determined in the field that leks of protein fed males are more attractive to females than leks of protein deprived males.”