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Oviposition deterring pheromone inAnastrepha fraterculus flies

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Anastrepha fraterculus (Wiedemann) females were found to deposit a water-soluble, durable, oviposition-deterring pheromone during ovipositor dragging on fruit after egg-laying. We present evidence that the occurrence of pheromone deposition after egg-laying, the amount deposited, and departure from the fruit without additional egg-laying after pheromone deposition are flexible traits inA. fraterculus, varying in expression according to fruit size and other factors. UnlikeRhagoletis, A. fraterculus males were not arrested by the pheromone.

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  1. Department of Entomology, University of Massachusetts, 01003, Amherst, Massachusetts

    Ronald J. Prokopy

  2. Departamento de Biologia, Instituto de Biociencias, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Caixa Postal 11.461, Sao Paulo, Brazil

    Aldo Malavasi & Joao S. Morgante

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Prokopy, R.J., Malavasi, A. & Morgante, J.S. Oviposition deterring pheromone inAnastrepha fraterculus flies. J Chem Ecol 8, 763–771 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00988317

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