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Sunday, 14 November 2004 - 10:12 AM
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Some aspects of the biology of a phorid fly associated with the mushroom Termitomyles sp
Daniel Affum, dannix65@yahoo.co.uk and Francis Gbogbo, doctor2003gh@yahoo.com. Univ. of Ghana, Zoology Dept, P. O. Box LG 67 legon_Ghana, Accra, Ghana
This mini-project is concerned with the feeding behaviour of the phorid fly, a pest of the giant mushroom Termitonyces spp. The duration of the life cycle of the in insect was inverstigated. Measurements were made of the body length of the larva, pupa and adult. Descriptions and diagrams were made of these development stages. The relationship between the size of the mushroom and infestation intensity was investigated. The larger the mushroom, the larger the infestation. Infestations averaged a total of 268 larvae per mushroom for small mushrooms to 546 larvae per mushroom for large mushrooms. A feeding experiment was carried out to determine the rate of consumption capacity of larval stages. Small larvae consumed an avrage of 0.106 g mushroom per day. Based on the figures from this study, the phorid fly associated with Termitonyces spp. has a life cycle with a duration of approximately 37 days.
Species 1: Diptera Phoridae Megaselia rufipes pipunculus (phorid fly)
Keywords: bionomics, mushrooms
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COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
- From Francis Gbogbo, Assistant Lecturer, University of Ghana, March 30, 2006
I write ti indicate that I Francis Gbogbo of University of Ghana has no knowledge about the paper"Some aspects of the biology of phorid fly associated with mushroom" prisented by Daniel Affum and with me supposed to be a co-author. I do not know anybody by that name. I am a vertebrate biologist and not an Entomologist. I would therefore like to know the circumstance underwhich my name and address showed up on the 14 November 2004 at the annual meeting of the Entomological Society. If it is anyone of those Ghanaians looking up of ways to elede the US immigration then you better start looking up for him. My image is very very important for me