Eradication of tephritid fruit fly pest populations: outcomes and prospects

DM Suckling, JM Kean, LD Stringer… - Pest management …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND The number of insect eradication programmes is rising in response to
globalisation. A database of arthropod and plant pathogen eradications covers 1050 …

Status of Rhagoletis (Diptera: Tephritidae) Pests in the NAPPO Countries

WL Yee, V Hernández-Ortiz, J Rull… - Journal of Economic …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The North American Plant Protection Organization (NAPPO) is an organization comprising
plant protection regulatory officials of the three signatory countries: the United States …

Sequential divergence and the multiplicative origin of community diversity

GR Hood, AA Forbes, THQ Powell… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Phenotypic and genetic variation in one species can influence the composition of interacting
organisms within communities and across ecosystems. As a result, the divergence of one …

Fruit fly invasion: historical, biological, economic aspects and management

NT Papadopoulos - Trapping and the detection, control, and regulation of …, 2014 - Springer
Enhanced by global warming as well as by intense human mobility and trading of
agricultural goods, pest invasions have profound effects on national and regional …

Mapping Global Potential Risk of Establishment of Rhagoletis pomonella (Diptera: Tephritidae) Using MaxEnt and CLIMEX Niche Models

S Kumar, WL Yee, LG Neven - Journal of Economic Entomology, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The apple maggot, Rhagoletis pomonella (Walsh)(Diptera: Tephritidae), is a major
quarantine pest of apples (Malus domestica Borkhausen) in the United States. Apple …

Ecological adaptation and reproductive isolation in sympatry: genetic and phenotypic evidence for native host races of Rhagoletis pomonella

THQ Powell, AA Forbes, GR Hood… - Molecular …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological speciation with gene flow may be an important mode of diversification for
phytophagous insects. The recent shift of R hagoletis pomonella from its native host downy …

Cold tolerance and diapause within and across trophic levels: Endoparasitic wasps and their fly host have similar phenotypes

T McIntyre, L Andaloori, GR Hood, JL Feder… - Journal of Insect …, 2023 - Elsevier
Low temperatures associated with winter can limit the survival of organisms, especially
ectotherms whose body temperature is similar to their environment. However, there is a gap …

Conserved cold tolerance of Rhagoletis species from different host fruits and elevations in Colorado, USA

K Lemay, M Moore, P Brown, L Gadey… - Physiological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding and characterizing how insects tolerate low temperatures is important for
predicting their overwintering survival and subsequent geographic spread. This study …

Rapid and repeatable host plant shifts drive reproductive isolation following a recent human-mediated introduction of the apple maggot fly, Rhagoletis pomonella

GR Hood, THQ Powell, MM Doellman, SB Sim… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Ecological speciation via host-shifting is often invoked as a mechanism for insect
diversification, but the relative importance of this process is poorly understood. The shift of …

Trapping to monitor tephritid movement: results, best practice, and assessment of alternatives

CW Weldon, MK Schutze, M Karsten - … , and regulation of tephritid fruit flies …, 2014 - Springer
Movement of tephritid flies underpins their survival, reproduction, and ability to establish in
new areas and is thus of importance when designing effective management strategies …