The Diptera ('true flies' or 'two-winged flies') constitute one of the largest orders of insects, with more than 160,000 species known worldwide and at least as many more still awaiting discovery.
Reliable methods are needed for assessing sexual maturity in field-captured tephritid fruit flies. To provide such a tool for female Caribbean fruit flies, Anastrepha suspensa (Loew), this study ...
https://doi.org/10.2307/3495098 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/3495098 5,740 kg (1,897 samples) of fleshy fruits were harvested from 89 species of plants in 321 ...