• Journal of Sericultural and Entomological Science
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.73-76
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• 1993

Adding a non-fluorescent dye, Rhodamine-B, to the adult diet of uzi fly, Exorista bombysis (Louis) has shown to be a useful method for marking the eggs for flight range experiments. The method is timesaving and the dye is safe to handle and the marked eggs are easy to detect. Files fed on the diet added with dye did not have much negative effect on adult mortality and fecundity, but egg hatchability was affected.

• Journal of Sericultural and Entomological Science
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.23-26
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• 1998

Exposure of freshly laid eggs of Exorista bombycis (Louis) to volatiles emanating from bulbs of Allium sativum L. for different durations resulted in signigicant reduction in their hatchability. Maggots hatched from the eggs exposured for 64 h and 72 h were failed to emerge from host larvae. The duration of development stages of E. bombycis was prolonged besides reduction in rate of pupation and adult emergence as the egg exposure period increased. The findings are interpreted as the chronic effects of volatiles of garlic affecting maggots following developmental defects sustainable during embryonic development. The known major chemical components of A. sativum such as allicin, thioacrolein, ajoune, 2-propene sulfenic acid, 2-propene thiol and propylene were presumed to be responsible for the adverse consequences reported in this paper.