Bacterially enriched diet improves sexual performance of sterile male Mediterranean fruit flies
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1 Department of Entomology, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel 2 Department of Microbiology, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel 3 Israel Cohen Institute for Biological Control, Plant Production and Marketing Board, Citrus Division, Bet-Dagan, Israel
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Feeding and foraging of wild and sterile Mediterranean fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) in the presence of spinosad bait.
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