2013 International Nuclear Atlantic Conference - INAC 2013 Recife, PE, Brazil, November 24-29, 2013 ASSOCIAÇÃO BRASILEIRA DE ENERGIA NUCLEAR - ABEN ISBN: 978-85-99141-05-2 INCREASE OF ACCEPTABILITY PERIOD OF Musca domestic L., 1758 (DIPTERA: MUSCIDAE) PUPAE, IRRADIATED BY GAMMA RADIATION AS HOST OF THE PUPAL PARASITOID Spalangia endius, Walker, 1839 (HYMENOPTERA: PTEROMALIDAE) Natanael M. Itepan1, Sara E. D. Z. Itepan2 and Valter Arthur3 1 Instituto Federal de São Paulo – IFSP - Área de Física Rua Diácono Jair de Oliveira, 1005 - Santa Rosa. 13423204 Piracicaba, SP
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[email protected] ABSTRACT This experiment was carried out in Biological Control of Domestic Fly "Eduardo Hiroshi Mizumoto" Laboratory at Entomology and Acarology Department (LEA/ESALQ/USP) and in Food Irradiation and Radioentomology Laboratory (LIARE/CENA/USP). The gamma radiation source used was a Co-60 irradiator model Gammabeam-650 of the Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. whose activity in the beginning of the experiments was 9.8x1013 Bq. (2,644 Ci). The lots of pupae of Musca domestic L., 1758 and the parasitoid Spalangia endius Walker, 1839 had been kept in acclimatized room with 25 ± 2°C of temperature and 70 ± 5% of relative humidity. This experiment was designed to investigate if the non-viabilization M. domestic pupae, using gamma radiation, could build up the acceptability period as host of the pupal parasitoid S.