Attraction of female fruit flies to the different protein food baits in mango orchard
Research Type
Departmental Research
Experiment Background
Mango is important fruit crop which is severely damaged by fruit flies. Most common species attacking to mango are Bactrocera dorsalis Hendel, B. correcta Bezzi and B. zonata (Saunders) (Verghese and Sudhadevi, 1998 and Rajitha and Viraktamath, 2005a). Female fruit flies are the dominant factor for multiplication of the pest. Female fruit fly attractive baits are needed in any applicative system against this pest for monitoring and direct control (Mazor et al., 2002). They need protein source to mature sexually and for the development of their eggs (Christenson and Foote, 1960). Exploiting this need, female targeted system normally consists of traps baited with a liquid solution made from protein and fermenting sugar (Epsky et al., 1999, Mazor et al., 2002). Increasing knowledge on behaviour associated with attraction of both sexually immature females and egg laying females would improve detection and delimitation of fruit flies and provide increased protection of crops adversely affected by their presence. Hence, the present studies will be carried out on attracting female fruit flies to the different protein food baits in mango orchard.
Experiment Group
Agricultural Entomology
Unit Type
(02)EDUCATION UNIT
Unit
(12)NAVINCHANDRA MAFATLAL COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE (NAVSARI)
Department
(259)Entomology Department, NMCA, Navsari
BudgetHead
(303/12076/00)303/01/REG/04484
Objective
To study the attraction of female fruit flies to the different protein food baits in mango orchard
Season
Summer
Location Unit Type
(02)EDUCATION UNIT
Location Unit
(12)NAVINCHANDRA MAFATLAL COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE (NAVSARI)