Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend the homemade PET bottle trap with Cera Trap for inexpensive fruit fly monitoring and control.
- Taxon
- guava
Psidium guajavat0 - Interactor
- fruit fliese0pest
- Outcome
- homemade PET bottle trap baited with Cera Trap is a cheap option for monitoring and controlling fruit fliese0
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Verbatim
e0“These results suggest that the use of the homemade PET bottle trap baited with Cera Trap is a cheap option for monitoring and controlling fruit flies”
t0“fruit fly damage has increased in guava, mango, orange, and mamey”
Title
Anastrepha spp.1 in Sierra Juarez, Oaxaca, Mexico
Onésimo Chávez-López; Omar Hernández-Romero; J. Concepción Rodríguez-Maciel; et al. Southwestern Entomologist 2024. doi:10.3958/059.049.0135
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Observation Fruit fly damage increased in guava.
- Observation Fruit fly damage increased in mango.
- Observation Fruit fly damage increased in orange.
- Observation Fruit fly damage increased in mamey.
- Observation Anastrepha ludens was among the major fruit flies captured.
- Observation A. obliqua was among the major fruit flies captured.
- Observation A. striata was among the major fruit flies captured.
- Observation A. serpentina was among the major fruit flies captured.
- Observation Anastrepha fraterculus was among the less common captured fruit flies.
- Observation A. distincta was among the less common captured fruit flies.
- Observation A. bahiensis was among the less common captured fruit flies.
- Observation A. zuelaniae was among the less common captured fruit flies.
- Observation A. robusta was among the less common captured fruit flies.
- Observation A. curvicauda was among the less common captured fruit flies.
- Method / resource Cera Trap captured fruit flies at FTD=0.42 per trap per day.
- Method / resource Torula captured fruit flies at MTD=0.12 per trap per day.
- Method / resource Cera Trap in PET bottles captured the most fruit flies at high altitude, 70.3.
- Method / resource Cera Trap in PET bottles captured the most fruit flies at low altitude, 60.3.
- Method / resource Multilure plus Cera Trap performed best at middle altitude, at 115.6.