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EXPERIMENTAL CONTROL OF STABLE FLIES, STOMOXYS CALCITRANS (DIPTERA: MUSCIDAE), BY RELEASES OF CHEMOSTERILIZED ADULTS1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

G. C. LaBrecque
Affiliation:
Entomology Research Division, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Gainesville, Florida
D. W. Meifert
Affiliation:
Entomology Research Division, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Gainesville, Florida
J. Rye Jr.
Affiliation:
Entomology Research Division, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Gainesville, Florida

Abstract

Releases of chemosterilized stable flies, Stomoxys calcitrans (L.), that equalled existing field populations (1:1 ratio) markedly reduced a field population in Florida. The released insects were relatively long lived in the field and did not migrate far from the nearest source of food and oviposition medium.

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Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1972

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