ABSTRACT
The quality assessment of target species is of paramount significance in a mass rearing facility devised for population suppression or eradication programs through sterile insect technique. It is essential to ensure that the flies produced are effective in carrying their genetic load to their intended target, the native flies. Fruit fly autocidal control or eradication programs rely on the vitality, vigor, and mass production of millions of flies, sterilization, and release to overflood wild populations. Pupal weight and adult emergence were also dependent on egg density. A major concern of entomologists and program directors of fruit fly eradication programs involved in the release of sterile flies is that the flies produced are adequate to fulfill their mission.
