Akdeniz Meyvesineği’nin mücadelesinde farklı yöntemlerin etkinliği

Abstract

Ceratitis capitata Wiedemann (Diptera: Tephritidae) is an important pest on the citrus, stone fruits and pome fruits in Eastern Mediterranean Region of Turkey. Three main methods are used to control the fruit fly populations in the region; i) mass trapping via bait station device, ii) pesticide bait spray mixture and iii) foliar pesticide application. The efficacy of the methods was evaluated in three different Okitsu Wase mandarin orchards during the fruit season (July-October) of 2015 and 2016 by monitoring the trapped number of the fruit fly in McPhail traps and counting C. capitata infected mandarin fruits. The fruit fly population level was very high at all mandarin orchard during the season. All the orchards have had more than 50 individuals per trap since the first week in the trials. The population continued increasing until the end of the August and hit the more than 700 C. capitata trap per week in malathion-bait spray applied orchards. The results show that three methods are not able to control the C. capitata population very well. Although foliar pesticide application has given better results with less infected fruits (4.4%) than other application methods in the first-year, mass trapping via bait station device (15.03%), and malathion bait spray mixture (15.15%) gave better result in the second year. As a conclusion, in high population level any of the methods did not ensure satisfied results, Therefore an integrated the fruit fly management tactics should be applied such a high population level.