10.5061/DRYAD.X69P8CZFN
Rusch, Travis
0000-0002-0311-0956
Texas A&M University
Faris, Ashleigh
Texas A&M University
Beebe, Lauren
Texas A&M University
Tomberlin, Jeffery
Texas A&M University
Tarone, Aaron
Texas A&M University
Data from: The upper thermal tolerance for a Texas population of the hairy
maggot blow fly Chrysomya rufifacies Macquart (Diptera: Calliphoridae)
Dryad
dataset
2020
National Institute of Justice
https://ror.org/00v8p7w89
2016‐DN‐BX‐0204
2020-08-08T00:00:00Z
2020-08-08T00:00:00Z
en
https://doi.org/10.1111/een.12902
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The hairy maggot blow fly (Chrysomya rufifacies: Macquart) is an invasive
necrophagous fly found throughout the continental United States. Chrysomya
rufifacies is of medical/veterinary, forensic, and ecological importance
due to its ability to cause myiasis, colonize human remains, and displace
native Diptera. However, little is known about their upper thermal
tolerance, which could be used to better predict their invasion potential.
We investigated the upper thermal tolerance of C. rufifacies exposed to
different temperatures (20 – 45°C), times (1 – 6 h), and nutrients (no
food or water, water only, or a food-water mixture) for both sexes and two
age ranges (young = 6-8, old = 9-11 days post pupal emergence). As
temperature or duration increased, the probability of knockdown increased
(0 – 100% at 20 and 45°C and from 41 – 75% at 1 and 6 h), while the
probability of survival decreased (99 – 2% at 20 and 45°C and from 75 –
28% at 1 and 6 h). The availability of nutrients increased thermal
tolerance at moderate temperatures (40 and 42°C). Female flies were more
thermally tolerant than males (probability of knockdown = 49% vs 58%;
probability of survival = 58 % vs 46%). Thermal tolerance did not differ
by age. These data reveal details about the upper thermal tolerance for a
single population of C. rufifacies, and suggest that environmental and
organismal factors ought to be considered in order to make meaningful
predictions about the invasion potential of C. rufifacies in North
America.