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Biology of Gall Midges

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Adult life span of gall-inducing cecidomyiids is very short, usually one, sometimes two to three days although they live longer under humid laboratory conditions if they do not swarm or lay eggs. In this chapter, various patterns of adult activity including emergence, swarming, mating, and oviposition are demonstrated and compared between diurnal and nocturnal species and between species with different life history strategies. We refer to the results of comparison in the flight ability between a host-alternating and multivoltine Asphondylia yushimai and a monophagous and univoltine A. aucubae. It is remarkable that A. yushimai females carry the potential strong flight ability, i.e. continuously 13.7 km within 10 h. Some aspects of larval behavior are also referred to in this chapter.

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    Junichi Yukawa

  2. Animal Resources Division, National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon, South Korea

    Wanggyu Kim

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Yukawa, J., Kim, W. (2021). Behavior. In: Yukawa, J., Tokuda, M. (eds) Biology of Gall Midges. Entomology Monographs. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6534-6_7

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