Competition: A Missing Component of Fruit Fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Risk Assessment and Planning.

ABSTRACT: Tephritid fruit flies are internationally significant pests of horticulture. Because they are also highly invasive and of major quarantine concern, significant effort is placed in developing full or partial pest risk assessments (PRAs) for fruit flies, while large investments can be made for their control. Competition between fruit fly species, driven by the need to access and utilise fruit for larval development, has long been recognised by researchers as a fundamental component of fruit fly biology, but is entirely absent from the fruit fly PRA literature and appears not be considered in major initiative planning. First presenting a summary of the research data which documents fruit fly competition, this paper then identifies four major effects of fruit fly competition that could impact

SUBMITTER: Clarke AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9697728 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature