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Article: Exposing entire adult holding rooms containing sterile male mediterranean fruit flies to orange oil increases the mating success of those males in field-cage trials.(Report)
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- Florida Entomologist
- Article date:
- December 1, 2008
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The success of the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) depends, to a large degree, on the sexual competitiveness of the released, sterile insects. Thus, protocols that enhance this competitiveness will increase the effectiveness of SIT as smaller numbers of sterile insects may be needed to control incipient wild populations (thereby reducing programmatic costs). Numerous studies (Shelly 2001; Shelly et al. 2003; 2004a, 2005, 2006, 2007) have demonstrated that exposure of adult males of the Mediterranean fruit fly (medfly), Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann), to the aroma of ginger root oil (GRO hereafter, Zingiber officinale Roscoe) increases their mating success over that observed ...