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The apple maggot (Rhagoletis pomonella), also known as the railroad worm (but distinct from the Phrixothrix beetle larva, also called railroad worm), is a species of fruit fly, and a pest of several types of fruits, mostly apples.
Rhagoletis juglandis Cresson, 1920 – walnut husk fly; Rhagoletis juniperina Marcovitch, 1915; Rhagoletis kurentsovi (Rohdendorf, 1961) Rhagoletis lycopersella Smyth, 1960; Rhagoletis macquartii (Loew, 1873) Rhagoletis magniterebra (Rohdendorf, 1961) Rhagoletis meigenii (Loew, 1844) Rhagoletis mendax Curran, 1932 – blueberry maggot
Rhagoletis mendax is a species of tephritid fruit fly known by the common name blueberry maggot. The blueberry maggot is closely related to the apple maggot ( R. pomonella ), a larger fruit fly in the same genus.
This is a list of species of the tephritid fruit fly genus Rhagoletis. As of 2006, 70 species have been described. As of 2006, 70 species have been described. Rhagoletis acuticornis (Steyskal)
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Males fly upward near the top of the trees to search for females because females tend to stay near trees that they eclosed from. [6] Codlemones, or (E,E)-8,10-dodecadien-1-ol, is a major male-attracting sex pheromone secreted by females. [ 7 ]
Bush is best known for his research on the process of speciation, [2] especially for his evidence of sympatric speciation in the apple maggot fruit fly, Rhagoletis pomonella, which shifted from using its native host, hawthorn tree, to using the domesticated apple tree in the last 150-200 years. [3] [4]
Rhagoletis zephyria is a species of tephritid or fruit fly in the genus Rhagoletis of the family Tephritidae. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Visually similar to Rhagoletis pomonella and often misidentified as such.