RE: Mediterranean Fruit Flies

["Carlisle, Sara" <carlisles@aecl.ca>]

Although I can't say for certain that this is true for fruit flies, many
insects can lay eggs for quite a long time after fertilization - a male
wouldn't have to make the trip, just a fertilized female.


Sara M. Carlisle
Radiation Biology and Health Physics Branch
AECL, Chalk River Laboratories
Chalk River, ON K0J 1J0
Canada

carlisles@aecl.ca
phone (613) 584-8811 Extn 3667
fax (613) 584-1713


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> From: 	Franz Schoenhofer[SMTP:schoenho@via.at]
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> Sent: 	Thursday March 02, 2000 2:24 PM
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> Subject: 	Re: Article from 3/2 Christian Science Monitor: "Pardon me,
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> >
> >"People complain when we prevent them from bringing certain foods into
> the
> country, but a few years ago one Mediterranean fruit fly that got in
> resulted in $300-million worth of damage to the orange crop in Florida."
> 
> Very surprising, I always thought that two subjects of different sex are
> needed to duplicate or multiplicate. At least for human beings, mammals
> (other than human beings), insects, reptiles....... 
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