of at least 50 insects in order to establish a population and encourage mating Make sure the material remains undisturbed at the introduction site for
fly must feed four times before it can oviposit for the first time). After mating the females lay their small (~1 mm long), white, sausage-shaped eggs (singly
pharate females (quiescent nymphs) that are still in their larval cuticle. Mating occurs as soon as the adult female emerges from the larval cuticle. Tarsonemid