Léo Rodrigo Ferreira Louzeiro

Ovipositional Behaviour of Two Fruit Flies, Ceratitis capitata and Anastrepha fraterculus, in Seven Fruit Hosts in the Laboratory

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...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/arrb/2020/v35i1130303

Mortality of Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) Exposed to Spinetoram Toxic Bait in the Laboratory

Adalton Raga, Ester Marques de Sousa & Léo Rodrigo Ferreira Louzeiro · Journal of Advances in Biology & Biotechnology · 2021

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...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jabb/2021/v24i1130249

Larvicidal and Adulticidal Activities of Neem Oil against Anastrepha fraterculus (Wied.) (Tephritidae)

Adalton Raga, Sara Braga e Silva, Léo Rodrigo Ferreira Louzeiro & Ester Marques de Sousa · European Journal of Medicinal Plants · 2020

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...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ejmp/2020/v31i1030280