Stimulation to oviposit and loss of receptivity to males by female Musca domestica L. (Diptera: Muscidae) are caused by the presence in the female of the accessory material produced in the male ejaculatory duct. Lesser amounts of the material can induce oviposition without loss of receptivity, and the effect of the material on both activities is apparently somewhat quantitative. Females mating early, shortly after they became sexually receptive, recovered receptivity in time more often than females that mated after they reached full maturity. Also, newly receptive females allowed to mate with males having a limited quantity of accessory material and then allowed to oviposit over an extended period showed significantly more remating than females that were not allowed to oviposit.
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Riemann et al. (1969) studied this question.