Potential Interaction of Phorid Fly Megaselia scalaris (Loew) with Various Economically Important Arthropod Fauna | Chapter 9 | Research Highlights in Agricultural Sciences Vol. 4

 The ‘destroy-fly’, Megaselia scalaris [1] (Diptera: Phoridae), is a slight, synanthropic, polyphagous fly that may keep a wide range of environmental niches. Under laboratory and instinctive conditions, miscellaneous life cycle stages devour, parasitize, and ate a larger type of plant and animal materials. In mechanically blocked environments, they are among the first wave of insects visiting human corpses. It is usually secondhand in research and within the testing room because it is easily civilized and this species is secondhand in experiments involving developmental, hereditary, and bioassay analyses. This class is important in the study of forensic entomology cause evidence derived from the lifecycle and behaviour of these flees is useful in both medical practitioner-criminal and neglect/abuse cases. The objective of this study search out represent the association concerning this fly accompanying a few agricultural and nonagricultural bugs along with few social and eusocial insects place it is shown that for various insects, this fly has various mechanisms and fads of action. The diverse cooperation of this flee with these insects gives us clear information of trophic interactions with species and contributes to the understanding building of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.

Author(s) Details:

Kaushik Pramanik,
Department of Agricultural Entomology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia, West Bengal – 741252, India.

Amit Layek,
Department of Agricultural Entomology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia, West Bengal – 741252, India.

Debashis Mandal,
Department of Agricultural Entomology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia, West Bengal – 741252, India.

Pranab Debnath,
Department of Agricultural Entomology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia, West Bengal – 741252, India.

Debashis Roy,
Dhaanya Ganga Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, Sargachhi, Murshidabad, West Bengal – 742408, India.

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