Apple Maggot

Apple maggot

Scientific classification

Kingdom:

Animalia

Phylum:

Arthropoda

Class:

Insecta

Order:

Diptera

Genus:

Rhagoletis

Species:

R. pomonella

Binomial name

Rhagoletis pomonella

(Walsh, 1867)

Synonyms

Trypeta albiscutellata Harris, 1835

Trypeta pomonella Walsh, 1867

The apple mackintosh maggot (Rhagoletis pomonella), commonly known as as train worm, is a pest of various fruits, largely apples. The personal kind of this insect is about 3/16 of your in . long, a bit lesser than the usual household fly, having a whitened dept of transportation on it's thorax as well as a feature black banding designed for instance an "F" about it has the wings. The larva, that's that phase of this insect's life spiral plenty of the exact harm to the particular fruit, is just like an average fly larva or even maggot. Other "worms," especially the particular larvae of the codling moth, of which infest the actual internal parts of celery will often be confused considering the apple maggot. Generally speaking, nonetheless caterpillars frequently feast within the apple mackintosh core although apple company company maggots kill your fruit flesh. In infested fruit, the particular larvae usually are often difficult in order to diagnose because of their pale, cream colouring plus tiny body size. The maggot stage provides several enemies, like many braconid wasps: Utetes canaliculatus, Diachasmimorpha mellea, plus Diachasma alloeum.

The adult cycle lays it has the eggs included in the fruit; leading to a arrival involving apples from Europe, it turned out observed primarily in hawthorns. The young "worm" this hatches consumes this berry (rarely will your larva give that berries whilst it continues to hanging for the tree), along with brings about the idea to bruise and corrosion and finally drop ahead of ripening. The pest overwinters as a pupa from the soil. It simply emerges after metamorphosis into a relatively defenseless fly. It functions batesian mimicry like a approach to defensive - its pigmentation resembles for you to the forelegs along with pedipalps of an bouncing spider (family Salticidae). Adults arise through the later part of June by way of September, utilizing their maximum flight transpiring in August.

Evolution

Rhagoletis pomonella is definitely considerable evolutionarily in this the particular species regarding that variety this provides nourishment to with oatmeal spontaneously come forth coming from your hawthorn feeding species inside the 1800 - 1850 CE point in time following celery were being created into North America. The the apple company giving kind would not currently generally kill hawthorns along with the hawthorn feeding race does not right now generally nourish upon apples. This comprises a new probable example of the early on action towards emergence of your fresh species, some sort of case of sympatric speciation.

The victory from the apple company species associated with Rhagoletis pomonella as well seems for you to have pushed creation associated with new races involving its parasites.

Notes in addition to References

^ Ricklefs, Robert E. and Gary L. Miller (2000). Ecology. W.H. Freeman and Company.

^ Feder, J. L. (1998) The apple maggot fly, Rhagoletis pomonella: flies inside encounter with typical wisdom regarding speciation? In Howard, D. J. & Berlocher, S. H. (Eds.) Endless Forms: Species in addition to Speciation. New York, Oxford University Press.

^ Forbes, A.A., L.L. Stelinski, T.H.Q. Powell, J.J. Smith as well as J.L. Feder. 2009. Sequential sympatric speciation all around trophic levels. Science 323: 776-779.

External links

Popular Account Bugs associated with Wormy Apples, Part 2 Copyright 1999 by means of Louise Kulzer

Ohio State University Fact Sheet

Apple Maggot Fly Traps - Ladd Research

apply maggot take flight about the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site

Categories: Tephritidae | Agricultural pest insects
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