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1 April 2011 Susceptibility of Low-Chill Blueberry Cultivars to Mediterranean Fruit Fly, Oriental Fruit Fly, and Melon Fly (Diptera: Tephritidae)
Peter A. Follett, Francis T. Zee, Randall T. Hamasaki, Kim Hummer, Stuart T. Nakamoto
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Abstract

No-choice tests were conducted to determine whether fruit of southern highbush blueberry, Vaccinium corymbosum L., hybrids are hosts for three invasive tephritid fruit flies in Hawaii. Fruit of various blueberry cultivars was exposed to gravid female flies of Bactrocera dorsalis Hendel (oriental fruit fly), Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) (Mediterranean fruit fly), or Bactrocera Cucurbitae Coquillet (melon fly) in screen cages outdoors for 6 h and then held on sand in the laboratory for 2 wk for pupal development and adult emergence. Each of the 15 blueberry cultivars tested were infested by oriental fruit fly and Mediterranean fruit fly, confirming that these fruit flies will oviposit on blueberry fruit and that blueberry is a suitable host for fly development. However, there was significant cultivar variation in susceptibility to fruit fly infestation. For oriental fruit fly, ‘Sapphire’ fruit produced an average of 1.42 puparia per g, twice as high as that of the next most susceptible cultivar ‘Emerald’ (0.70 puparia per g). ‘Legacy’, ‘Biloxi’, and ‘Spring High’ were least susceptible to infestation, producing only 0.20–0.25 oriental fruit fly puparia per g of fruit. For Mediterranean fruit fly, ‘Blue Crisp’ produced 0.50 puparia per g of fruit, whereas ‘Sharpblue’ produced only 0.03 puparia per g of fruit. Blueberry was a marginal host for melon fly. This information will aid in development of pest management recommendations for blueberry cultivars as planting of low-chill cultivars expands to areas with subtropical and tropical fruit flies. Planting of fruit fly resistant cultivars may result in lower infestation levels and less crop loss.

Peter A. Follett, Francis T. Zee, Randall T. Hamasaki, Kim Hummer, and Stuart T. Nakamoto "Susceptibility of Low-Chill Blueberry Cultivars to Mediterranean Fruit Fly, Oriental Fruit Fly, and Melon Fly (Diptera: Tephritidae)," Journal of Economic Entomology 104(2), 566-570, (1 April 2011). https://doi.org/10.1603/EC10272
Received: 21 July 2010; Accepted: 1 December 2010; Published: 1 April 2011
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KEYWORDS
Bactrocera cucurbitae
Bactrocera dorsalis
Ceratitis capitata
resistance
Vaccinium spp.
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