Attraction of fruit flies to different colours of methyl eugenol traps in guava and mango orchards.
Ravikumar P., Shashidhar Viraktamath
Author Affiliation: Department of Agricultural Entomology, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad - 580005, Karnataka, India.
Karnataka Journal of Agricultural Sciences 20 : 749-751
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).