Collection and Laboratory Culture of Ormia ochracea (Diptera: Tachinidae)
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Family Tachinidae is one of the most speciose families in the Order Diptera with approximately 1300 species occurring in North America alone. Research on the species Ormia ochracea (Bigot) (Diptera: Tachinidae) has largely focused on the problems incurred by their hosts as a result of parasitism or on the mechanics of their hearing. Little research effort has been devoted to the behavior or life history of these flies. Part of the reason they have remained lightly researched is the difficultly in maintaining a laboratory culture. Herein, we provide a detailed guide to collecting O. ochracea in the field, culturing them in the laboratory, and maintaining stock populations for multiple generations. We also provide data on the effectiveness of capturing O. ochracea in wooded versus open field areas, as well as data on the effectiveness of manually parasitizing crickets with O. ochracea larvae to propagate stock fly populations in the laboratory. Our results suggest that during field collection, traps should broadcast calls in wooded areas; and that manual parasitization is an effective way of culturing small colonies of O. ochracea in the laboratory.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it