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Wild strain, mated, female Mexican fruit flies, Anastrepha ludens (Loew), with no prior experience with fruit (naive), were not attracted to grapefruit, a preferred cultivated host, in wind tunnel experiments. Naive, mated laboratory strain females were attracted. Prior experience with grapefruit increased attraction of both laboratory and wild strains. More females were attracted to fruit with peel damage than to undamaged fruit, indicating that fruit odor mediated attraction. More naive than experienced females attempted to oviposit on the sides of the wind tunnel. Experienced laboratory males, but not wild males or naive males, were attracted to grapefruit. Attraction and oviposition behavior of laboratory flies was greater than that of wild flies.
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Robacker, D.C., Fraser, I. Attraction of Mexican Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) to Grapefruit: Enhancement by Mechanical Wounding of and Experience with Grapefruit. Journal of Insect Behavior 15, 399–413 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016221326978
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