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COMPARATIVE ABUNDANCE AND COMPETITION BEHAVIOR BETWEEN TWO SPECIES OF TEPHRITID FRUIT FLIES IN GUAVA ORCHARDS AT QUALYUBIA GOVERNORATE

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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Agriculture

Abstract

Fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) are very dangerous insect pests for several horticultural crops causing deleterious quantitative and qualitative reduction in crops. Experiments under field conditions were conducted to determine the population dynamics of both Bactrocera zonata (Saund.) and Ceratitis capitata (Wied.) in guava orchards at Qualyubia Governorate for two successive years. Competitiveness between the two species of fruit flies on guava fruits was also studied. Results indicated that the attracted males of both B. zonata and C. capitata differently fluctuated on guava trees during the first and second years of investigation. During the first year, the highest two peaks of B. zonata of 53.33 and 86.67 individuals/trap/day occurred on the 14th of June and on the 8th of November 2021. However, the highest two peaks of C. capitata (148.67 and 219.00 males/ trap/day) were observed on the 11th of October and on the 8th of November 2021. During the second year the highest two peaks represented as FTD (Flies/Trap/Day) were 62.00, 55.00 for B. zonata and 153.00, 191.67 for C. capitata; and were recorded on the 26th of September, the 24th of October and on the 21st of November, the 19th of December 2022, respectively. The population of the two species highly increased throughout guava fruiting seasons. The grand total of the Mediterranean fruit fly was comparatively much higher than that of the peach fruit fly during the two years of investigation. On the other hand, B. zonata failed to compete C. capitata to infest guava fruits throughout the two seasons of investigation.

DOI

10.21608/jes.2024.271374.1739

Keywords

seasonal fluctuation, population, Ceratitis capitata, Bactrocera zonata

Authors

First Name

Marwa

Last Name

Abou El-Fotouh

MiddleName

S.

Affiliation

Faculty of Graduate Studies and Environmental Research, Ain Shams University, Egypt

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marwaalngarbakr@gmail.com

City

Cairo

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First Name

Yousef

Last Name

Abdallah

MiddleName

E.Y.

Affiliation

Plant Protection Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University

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First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Mosallam

MiddleName

M. Z.

Affiliation

Plant Protection Research Institute, Dokki, Giza, Egypt

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First Name

David

Last Name

Haneen

MiddleName

S. A.

Affiliation

Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University

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Volume

53

Article Issue

6

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48672

Issue Date

2024-06-01

Receive Date

2024-02-24

Publish Date

2024-06-01

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1,734

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1,749

Print ISSN

1110-0826

Online ISSN

2636-3178

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https://jes.journals.ekb.eg/article_362035.html

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362,035

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500

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Journal of Environmental Science

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https://jes.journals.ekb.eg/

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COMPARATIVE ABUNDANCE AND COMPETITION BEHAVIOR BETWEEN TWO SPECIES OF TEPHRITID FRUIT FLIES IN GUAVA ORCHARDS AT QUALYUBIA GOVERNORATE

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23 Dec 2024