Fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) cause significant losses during the production and marketing of horticultural products. Brazilian growers usually adopt full-coverage insecticide spraying to control fruit flies, but toxic bait is a more strategic technique, because reach effica...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2021/v24i1130249
The aim of this study was to evaluate the adulticidal effects of green coffee oil (GCO) and roasted coffee oil (RCO) on two species of fruit flies (Tephritidae) include Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) and Anastrepha fraterculus (Wiedemann). Adult flies of both species were exposed...
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Research Article10.9734/ejmp/2021/v32i530393
In the laboratory, a neem oil-based formulation was evaluated for its insecticidal potential against the South American fruit fly Anastrepha fraterculus (Wied.), as efficient alternative for growers harvest fruits more harmless for the human consumption. The commercial product wa...
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Research Article10.9734/ejmp/2020/v31i1030280
Fruit bagging is an important strategy to protect fruit against fruit fly (Tephritidae) infestation and pesticide contamination. In laboratory, we compared the forced infestation of guavas by Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) and Anastrepha fraterculus (Wiedemann) when wrapping them...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2020/v42i430502
Toxic bait is an alternative to manage fruit flies (Tephritidae) in orchards and in wide-area programmes. The mortality caused by different dilutions of spinosad baits on adults of Ceratitis capitata (Wied.) and Anastrepha grandis (Macquart) (Tephritidae) were compared with a hyd...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2019/v32i230098
Fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) of economic and quarantine significance are responsible for both quantitative and qualitative losses in horticulture. Most producers in Brazil use insecticides as a cover spray for the control of fruit flies. Here new insecticide molecules were...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/43066
Fruit fly species (Diptera: Tephritidae) are considered key pests in peach (Prunus persica L. Batsch) and plum (Prunus salicina Lindl.) crops in Brazil, causing both fruit losses and increased fruit costs due to greater use of spray insecticides. To measure the degree of infestat...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2017/34005
Non-target Insects Captured in McPhail Traps Baited with Proteinaceous and Salts in Citrus Crop Introduction: Traps baited with food attractants are commonly used for monitoring or mass trapping of fruit flies in many crops. The use of attractive food has a limitation in terms of...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2018/39599
Because of fruit fly incidence, importing countries impose phytosanitary barriers to prevent the entry and spread of infested fruits. When fruits are not grown in fruit fly-free areas, some countries require quarantine treatments for fruit disinfestation before or during shipping...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2023/v45i102201
Fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) are the primary pests of horticultural crops worldwide, causing both direct and indirect damage to the fruit production, including Anastrepha grandis (Macquart, 1846), which exclusively infests Cucurbitaceae fruit. Dose-response tests were used...
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Research Article10.9734/arrb/2021/v36i430360
Ester Marques de Sousa, Léo Rodrigo Ferreira Louzeiro, Miguel Francisco de Souza- Filho & Adalton Raga·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2020
Anastrepha fraterculus (Wiedemann) and Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) are the most commonly found fruit fly species in fruit crops in Brazil. Both polyphagous species show similar host ranges, but specific knowledge regarding the ovipositional preference of either species is scar...
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Research Article10.9734/arrb/2020/v35i1130303