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A basis for the renewal of sterile insect technique for the olive fly, Bactrocera oleae (Rossi)

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2012

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136

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Estes, A.M., Department of Biological Sciences, Towson University, MD, United States
Nestel, D., Department of Entomology, Institute of Plant Protection, The Volcani Center, ARO, Beit-Dagan, Israel
Belcari, A., Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Section of Plant Protection, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Jessup, A., Insect Pest Control Laboratory, Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria
Rempoulakis, P., Laboratory of Applied Entomology, Biology Department, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Economopoulos, A.P., Department of Biology, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

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The olive fly (OLF), Bactrocera oleae (Rossi), is an invasive tephritid fruit fly that causes extensive damage to olive crops around the world (especially in the Mediterranean basin and North America). Previous attempts to use the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) for the OLF were not successful because of the inability to rear high quality OLF in the laboratory on an artificial diet. New improvements in rearing methods and additional understanding of the basic biology of the OLF have led to a renewal of interest in using SIT for OLF. This review discusses the history, difficulties, improvements and future directions of OLF mass-rearing. Issues include: the design of cages and oviposition substrates, cost and quality of artificial diets, maintenance of endosymbiotic microbiota, control of pathogenic microbes, collection of pupae, the fitness of adults, and the competitiveness of sterilized laboratory males released to the field. © 2011 Blackwell Verlag, GmbH.

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