Several fruit fly species are invasive pests that damage quality fruits in horticultural crops
and cause significant value losses. The management of fruit flies is challenging due to their …

The diverse ecology of parasitoids is shaped by extrinsic competition, ie, exploitative or
interference competition among adult females and males for hosts and mates. Adult females …

Two generalist pupal drosophilid parasitoids, Pachycrepoideus vindemiae (Rondani)(
Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) and Trichopria drosophilae Perkins (Hymenoptera …

Abstract Fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) are among the main pests in horticulture, impacting
field crops and export markets. The biological control of fruit flies has become an important …

Understanding and predicting potential competitive outcomes is critical in the design of
biological control programs when considering multiple agent introductions. Tephritid fruit …

Natural parasitism of Doryctobracon areolatus (Szépligeti)(Hymenoptera: Braconidae) on
various development stages of Anastrepha obliqua (Macquart)(Diptera: Tephritidae) …

We evaluated the effect of augmentative releases of Diachasmimorpha longicaudata
(Ashmead), on the native parasitoid guild of Anastrepha spp. over a two year period in …

Abstract Fopius arisanus (Sonan) and Psyttalia incisi (Silvestri) are two important solitary
endoparasitoids of Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel). This study investigated the interspecific …

We conducted a survey of the species of frugivorous flies (Tephritidae and Lonchaeidae),
their hosts, and their parasitoids found on Ilha de Santana, Amapá State, Brazilian Amazon …

Biological control by the generalist egg parasitoid Fopius arisanus (Sonan)(Hymenoptera:
Braconidae) has been proposed against Bactrocera carambolae (Drew & Hancock)(Diptera …