Marc J. B. Vreysen

TL;DR: It is shown that the eradication campaign had very limited impacts on the apparent densities of the most frequent species as well as three diversity indexes during the reduction phase involving insecticides but reverted to pre-intervention levels as soon as the release of the sterile male insects started.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether methyl eugenol (ME) feeding by males affects mating compatibility between Asian and African populations of B. dorsalis and showed that ME feeding only increased the number of matings.

TL;DR: The responses of male tsetse Glossina austeni Newstead (Diptera: Glossinidae) towards blue and white sticky legged panels, baited with odour attractants, and towards modified panels were studied in the Jozani forest of Unguja Island, Zanzibar.

TL;DR: The results showed no pre-zygotic (mating barriers) or post-Zygotic isolations (measured by egg hatch%) among the olive fruit fly populations from the four countries tested, and there was no evidence of mating barriers between the hybrid strain and the wild populations of the Mediterranean region.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that, compared to normoxia, hypoxic and severe-hypoxic conditioning before and during irradiation can increase adult emergence and contribute to advancement of larval development of tephritid fruit flies only at low radiation doses that are not used as phytosanitary treatments.