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Seasonal development of the blowfly Caliphora vicina R.-D. (Diptera, Calliphoridae) in the environs of St. Petersburg

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Four-year monitoring of phenology of the blowfly Caliphora vicina under quasi-natural conditions in the environs of St. Petersburg demonstrated development of two complete generations and overwintering of the third generation. The duration of preimaginal development (from egg laying to adult emergence) of the 1st and 2nd generations varied from 19 to 32 days; the required sum of effective temperatures (SET) was 326 ± 31 degree-days with a threshold of 5°С. Reproductive maturation of females (the period of time from adult emergence to laying of the first eggs) lasted from 15 to 31 days (SET was 262 ± 39 degree-days with a threshold of 5°С). The duration of development of one complete generation (from egg stage to the beginning of oviposition) during the period of observation varied from 34 to 57 days (SET was about 600 degree-days with a threshold of 5°С). The first diapausing larvae hatched from the eggs laid in the middle of August. In September, at shorter day lengths and at a temperature of 10–11°С, 80–100% of the larvae entered diapause. A small fraction of the larvae of the 1st and 2nd generation and most of the larvae of the 3rd generation overwintered. Successful overwintering of adults in the environs of St. Petersburg is hardly possible.

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Original Russian Text © E.B. Vinogradova, S.Ya. Reznik, 2016, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2016, Vol. 95, No. 2, pp. 273–281.

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Vinogradova, E.B., Reznik, S.Y. Seasonal development of the blowfly Caliphora vicina R.-D. (Diptera, Calliphoridae) in the environs of St. Petersburg. Entmol. Rev. 96, 263–268 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873816030015

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