Beneficial Wasps against Destructive Flies

An article appearing on the ScienceDaily website entitled Olives may be reclaimed by Helpful Wasp inform the findings of the research headed by capital of Seychelles Yokoyama concerning the effects of releasing a small brown white Anglo-Saxon Protestant cognize as Psyttalia cf.concolor into chromatic proceeds aerify infested groves in calcium. California is the leading producer of the chromatic harvest-festival simply olive increase move prove to be a major problem with the emf to destroy annual olive crop. ScienceDaily (2009) describe that the olive issue vanish was first discovered in 1998 but has now come to infest the whole state especially where olives are grown.P. cf. concolor would be suitable to help minimize the damage caused by the olive fruit fly by tone-beginninging its maggots thereby prohibiting their growth and decreasing their numbers. Olive fruit flies damage the production of olive fruits as its young inseminate voraciously on the fruit of the ol ive tree as it ripens. The P. cf. concolor would help to solve this damage caused by the olive fruit flies by laying its eggs privileged the flies maggots. ScienceDaily (2009) describe that when the wasps eggs hatch, the young wasp would feed on the maggot from the inside out. However, ScienceDaily (2009) account that scientists are continuing to carefully evaluate the wasps effectiveness in thwarting the olive fruit fly but stated that the wasp is harmless to people, pets and plants. ScienceDaily (2009) in like manner reported that the wasp is more than effective than some of the parasitoids in combating the olive fruit fly. In 2008, Yokoyama et al. reported that the P. cf. concolor rate of parasitism to the olive fruit fly was at 24. 2 percent. The report by Yokoyama et al. (2008) also showed that the P. cf.concolor would, given the choice, prefer to attack olive fruit flies than the walnut husk fly implying that the wasp would attack the olive fruit fly maggots more often w hen there was no other choice thereby increasing its effectiveness against the invasive pest. Yokoyama et al. (2008) reported that the P. cf. concolor was imported from Guatemala and were used in laboratory and field tests to mark off its ability to chair the olive fruit fly and was found to be highly adaptable under the same climate and weather conditions where its hosts thrive.They also reported that the wasps did not attack the seedhead flya beneficial fruit fly. Furthermore, Yokoyama et al. (2008) held that P. cf. concolor shows great promise as a biological control agent for olive fruit fly and establishment of the parasitoid in olives entrust help protect the production of canned olives and olive oil in California that is valued at $68 million annually. The ScienceDaily article gifted two insects a beneficial wasp and the destructive olive fruit fly.While it reported that the olive fruit fly causes destruction, particularly on olive crops, it reported a more likely solut ion to the problem. The article did not present the olive fruit as overly dangerous, however damaging, yet presented the P. cf. concolor as beneficial, without any serious adverse effects to the environment and to homo population. Furthermore, the article presented its report found on scientific research and based its conclusions on the report of the researchers concerning P.cf. concolor as biological control for the olive fruit flies. Works Cited ScienceDaily. Olives may be rescued by helpful wasp. 7 March 2009. ScienceDaily. 23 March 2009. Yokoyama, Victoria, Rendon, Pedro A. , and Sivinski, John. Psyttalia cf. concolor (Hymenoptera Braconidae) for biological control of olive fruit fly (Diptera Tephritidae) in California. Environmental Entomology Vol. 37, n