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Section 16: Pheromone and Colour Lures
Fly Host Location Authors Date Summary
B. zonata Mango Pusa, Bihar Agarwal and
Kumar
1999 Eight poisonous bait and attractant combinations were used in steiner types traps for the annililation of
adult peach fruit flies. Of these the treatment comprising methyl eugenol (2ml) mango pulp (20g) and
malathion 50EC (1ml) resulted in maximum trapping of flies.
B. zonata North Bihar Agarwal et al. 1995 Three different combinations of the attractant methyl eugenol, bait (protein hydrolysate) and malathion
50 EC were used in trapping males. Methyl eugenol mixed with bait and malathion was significantly
superior for trapping males as compared with other combinations, i.e. methyl eugenol & malathion and
bait & malathion.
B. dorsalis Plum,
mandarin
orange
B. cucurbitae Bitter gourd Vellayani
(Andhra
Pradesh)
Tamil Nadu Balasubramanium
et al.
B. spp. Ridge gourd Maharastra Desmukh and
Patil
B. dorsalis Mango Tamil Nadu Lakshmanan et
al.
B. dorsalis Guava Jammu and
Kashmir
B. zonata, B.
dorsalis, B.
correcta
1972 Use of traps baited with 1% methyl eugenol and containing 0.5% malathion reduced D. dorsalis infestation in a
plum orchard from 23 to 3% in 36 months. In a mandarin orange orchard infestation was reduced from 14.3 to
0.5% in 15 months.
Dale and Jiji 1997 Studies on pheromone trapping for the management of melon fly showed negative correlation between melon
flies trapped and the percentages of damaged bitter gourd fruits.
Makhmoor and
Singh
1996 The fruit fly trap (Trap-F) with methyl eugenol @ 3 ml/trap and baited with 0.05% cent dichlorvos (DDVP) was
found the most effective and economical treatment against fruit flies (B. spp.) with the lowest percentage of fruit
infestation, maximum yield and net returns/ha and greatest cost benefit ratio (1:47.8).
1973 Methyl eugenol used at 1% with 0.1% carbaryl and the traps replenished monthly gave effective control in a
mango orchard.
1998 Concentration of 1% methyl eugenol was the most effective with dichlorvos.
Sapota Gujarat Patel and Patel 1998 A trap consisting of a plastic jar, a plastic funnel and a cotton swab impregnated with 5 drops of methyl eugenol
as attractant in a glass Petri dish caught a total of 49.36 male fruit flies in a sapota [Manilkara zapota, sapodilla]
orchard in Gujarat. They belonged to the species B. zonata, B. dorsata and B. correcta.
B. ciliatus Sapota Southern Gujrat Patel and Patel 1995 Efficacy of a modified trap (Methyl eugenol alone) with the conventional bait trap (Methyl eugenol + DDNP) for
trapping fruit flies was evaluated. The modified trap proved to be equally effective in trapping the fruit flies without
extra cost; also the trap involves no use of insecticide so it is ecofriendly too.
B. ciliatus, B.
zonata, B.
dorasta
Little gourd Gujarat Patel and Patel 1998 Study on efficacy of methyl eugenol trap against fruit flies were carried out and found that methyl eugenol was not
effective to attract Dacus ciliatus. On the other hand large number of adults of B. zonata and dorsalis were
attracted tomethyl eugenol.
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