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Appearance of Pomegranate Butterfly Deudorix livia Klug (Lepidoptera:Lycaenidae) on Growth Stages of Different Host Plants and Its Fluctuation on Pomegranate Manfaloty Cultivar i

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Incidence of mature and immature stages of pomegranate butterfly, Deudorix livia Klug (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) was studied regarding to some host plants phenology during growth stages. The hosts are sweet acacia, Acacia farnesiana L., and pomegranate, Punica granatum L.. Besides, study its eggs population fluctuation on Manfaloty pomegranate cultivar during 2020 and 2021 under climatic factors [Maximum (MaxT) and Minimum (MinT) Temp. in Celsius degree (°C), Relative humidity (RH %), and Wind Speed (km/hr.)]. The sweet acacia was the most favourable for D. livia and represented the main host plant during the absence of targeted stage of other host plants. Eggs and adults were first observed after 2 and 7 weeks from fruit setting on sweet acacia; respectively in 2020 and 2021. On pomegranate the previous stages appeared after 3 weeks of fruit formation in both seasons. October was the best month for egg deposition in both seasons, because egg averages highly increased and this was the damaging time for pomegranate fruits. The populations of eggs showed three peaks in 2020 and two in 2021. The correlation coefficient between average numbers of eggs and maximum wind speed was negative and highly significant (r= -0.36776, P= <.0001) in 2020, meanwhile in 2021 still negative with non-significant effect (r= -0.10447, P= 0.1410). In conclusion, determine pest peaks is important to establish control program before peaks occurrence or after infestation reaches to economic threshold levels. This will be important to directed control strategies to prevent pest from laying eggs on pomegranate fruits.

DOI

10.21608/ajas.2023.178413.1205

Keywords

Deudorix livia, pomegranate, Sweet acacia, plant phenology

Authors

First Name

Farouk

Last Name

Abdel-Galil

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Plant Protection Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University Assiut, Egypt

Email

faagalil@aun.edu.eg

City

Assiut

Orcid

0000-0001-5105-826X

First Name

Sara

Last Name

Mousa

MiddleName

E.

Affiliation

Plant Protection Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University Assiut, Egypt

Email

sara_mohamed1@agr.aun.edu.eg

City

Assiut

Orcid

0000-0002-7722-3670

First Name

Gaber

Last Name

Abou-Elhagag

MiddleName

H.

Affiliation

Plant Protection Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University Assiut, Egypt

Email

gaber.ibrahim@agr.au.edu.eg

City

Assiut

Orcid

-

First Name

Mohammed

Last Name

Allam

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt.

Email

mohammad_allam10@sci.svu.edu.eg

City

Qena

Orcid

-

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Ahmed

MiddleName

M.M.

Affiliation

Plant Protection Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University Assiut, Egypt

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ahmed.ahmed@aun.edu.eg

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Assiut

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Volume

54

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1

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39278

Issue Date

2023-01-01

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2022-12-03

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2023-01-25

Page Start

174

Page End

188

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1110-0486

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2356-9840

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62

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Assiut Journal of Agricultural Sciences

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https://ajas.journals.ekb.eg/

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Appearance of Pomegranate Butterfly Deudorix livia Klug (Lepidoptera:Lycaenidae) on Growth Stages of Different Host Plants and Its Fluctuation on Pomegranate Manfaloty Cultivar i

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23 Dec 2024