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RESEARCH ARTICLE
Contents Vol 48(9)

Short- and long-range dispersal of the Queensland fruit fly, Bactrocera tryoni and its relevance to invasive potential, sterile insect technique and surveillance trapping

A. Meats A B and J. E. Edgerton A
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A School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.

B Corresponding author. Email: awm@bio.usyd.edu.au

Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 48(9) 1237-1245 https://doi.org/10.1071/EA07291
Submitted: 22 August 2007  Accepted: 30 April 2008   Published: 7 August 2008

Abstract

Dispersal of immature and sexually mature Queensland fruit fly, Bactrocera tryoni (Froggatt) from releases made at a single point was assessed from recapture rates obtained by using arrays of traps. The recapture data (pertaining to distances up to 480 m) fitted both logarithmic and Cauchy models although the fits for the releases of immature flies were inferior because of high variability in catches at certain distances. When combined with data previously published for longer distances, a Cauchy model fitted data for releases of immature flies well and indicated that the median distance dispersed after emerging from the puparium was ~120 m and that 90% of flies would displace less than 800 m despite the fact that a consistent trend in declining catch rates can be obtained up to at least 85 km. This is consistent with the tail of the Cauchy distribution having a slope congruent with a negative power curve and thus being scale invariant for longer distances. The distribution of recaptured flies that were released as adults also fitted a Cauchy model with a tail of the same slope, suggesting that the spatial distribution of long-distance dispersers is not only scale invariant but also age invariant. This has significance to the ability of surveillance trapping arrays to detect infestations and also to methods of distributing insects for the sterile insect technique. Whereas the spread of invading propagules in the first generation is likely to be limited by a decline to non-viable density within 1 km or less of the incursion point, the influence of larger infestations on nearby uninfested regions would be limited by the longevity of the dispersers.

Additional keywords: cue lure, Lévy flights.


Acknowledgements

The authors thank Swada (London) Ltd, for donating fluorescent pigment samples for the marking of flies and also thank the Centre for Horticulture and Plant Science, The University of Western Sydney, for use of their orchards on the Hawkesbury Campus.


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