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Effects of Mating on Fecundity of the Apple Maggot, Rhagoletis pomonella (Walsh)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

W. T. A. Neilson  and
J. W. McAllan
W. T. A. Neilson
Affiliation:
Entomology and Plant Pathology Section, Research Station, Research Branch, Canada Department of Agriculture, Fredericton, New Brunswick
J. W. McAllan
Affiliation:
Entomology and Plant Pathology Section, Research Station, Research Branch, Canada Department of Agriculture, Fredericton, New Brunswick
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Abstract

In the laboratory, it has been found that females of R. pomonella (Walsh) mating frequently throughout their lives laid about twice as many fertile eggs as females allowed to mate only a few times during their first two weeks after emergence. However, mating had little effect on the total numbers of eggs laid. Females mating frequently averaged 395 eggs and 95% were fertile whereas those mating only a few times averaged 360 eggs and 46% were fertile.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 97 , Issue 3 , March 1965 , pp. 276 - 279
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1965

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References

Neilson, W. T. A., and McAllan, J. A.. 1964. Artificial diets for the apple maggot, Rhagoletis pomonella (Walsh) II. Reproductive potential. J. econ. Ent. 57: 904–905.CrossRefGoogle Scholar