Journal of FARM SCIENCES, Vol 20, No 4 (2007)

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Attraction of Fruit Flies to Different Colours of Methyl Eugenol Traps in Guava and Mango Orchards

P. Ravikumar, Shashidhar Viraktamath

Abstract


Studies were made on attraction of different species of fruit flies to different coloured traps in guava and mango orchards during 2005-06 near Dharwad. Yellow and transparent traps attracted significantly high number of B. correcta in guava (70.45 fruit flies/trap/week) and mango (5.13 fruit flies/trap/week), respectively.  Green and orange coloured traps in guava (3.79 and 3.75 fruit flies/trap/week, respectively) black coloured traps in mango (3.88 fruit flies/trap/week) were attractive to B. dorsalis. B. zonata was attracted to red coloured traps (3.75 fruit flies/trap/week) in mango ecosystem. When total fruit flies irrespective of species were considered, yellow colour traps were attractive in guava (71.91 fruit flies/trap/week) while black colour traps in mango (8.68 fruit flies/trap/week).

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