This book addresses the study of the phylogeny and the evolution of fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) behaviour. It reviews the current state of knowledge and includes considerable new findings on various aspects of fruit fly behaviour, phylogeny and related subjects. In the past, the topics of phylogeny and evolution of behaviour were barely addressed, and when so, often superficially. This text is a definitive treatment, covering all behaviours in a broad range of tephritids, incorporating phylogenies as much as possible.

Fruit flies are enormously important economic pests, as California has learned over the past few years (remember the Mediterranean Fruit Fly?). The problem is expected to get worse, and issues of both basic research and control measures are very important for this pest. This book is the edited, camera-ready proceedings of a recent international symposium on fruit flies of economic importance. It covers current knowledge of fruit fly physiology, genetics, morphology and behavior. It discusses action programs for controlling and using fruit flies in agronomy, as well as the problem of fruit...