• Volatiles of essential oils and yeast derivatives influence mating behaviour of Anastrepha fraterculus males under field cage conditions 

      Ruiz, Maria Josefina; Juárez, María Laura; Jofré Barud, Flavia; Goane, Lucía; Valladares, Gabriela A.; Bachmann, Guillermo Enrique; Belliard, Silvina Ahnahi; Segura, Diego Fernando; Lopez, María Liza; Vera, María Teresa (Wiley, 2024-03-25)
      The sterile insect technique (SIT) is used for the management of tephritid fruit fly pests. The South American fruit fly, Anastrepha fraterculus (Wiedemann) (Diptera: Tephritidae), is one potential pest to be targeted by ...
    • Wolbachia pipientis associated with tephritid fruit fly pests: from basic research to applications 

      Mateos, Mariana; Martinez Montoya, Humberto; Lanzavecchia, Silvia Beatriz; Conte, Claudia Alejandra; Guillén, Karina; Morán-Aceves, Brenda M.; Toledo, Jorge; Liedo, Pablo; Asimakis, Elias D.; Doudoumis, Vangelis; Kyritsis, Georgios A.; Papadopoulos, Nikos T.; Augustinos, Antonios A.; Segura, Diego Fernando; Tsiamis, George (Frontiers Media, 2020-06)
      Members of the true fruit flies (family Tephritidae) are among the most serious agricultural pests worldwide, whose control and management demands large and costly international efforts. The need for cost-effective and ...
    • Yeast derivatives and wheat germ in the adult diet modulates fecundity in a tephritid pest 

      Goane, Lucía; Pereyra, P. M.; Castro, F.; Ruiz, María Josefina; Juárez, María Laura; Segura, Diego Fernando; Vera, María Teresa (Cambridge University Press, 2019-04)
      Anastrepha fraterculus (Wiedemann), a pest of great economic importance in South America, needs urgently to be controlled by environmentally friendly methods such as the sterile insect technique for which mass rearing of ...