Study Of Food Preference Of Cucurbit Fruit Fly Dacus Ciliatus (Loew) (Diptera:Tephritidae) On Species From Cucurbit Family Plants | ||
| Kirkuk University Journal For Agricultural Sciences | ||
| Article 19, Volume 9, Issue 2, June 2018, Pages 144-149 PDF (593.31 K) | ||
| Document Type: Research Paper | ||
| DOI: 10.58928/ku18.09219 | ||
| Author | ||
| Khidr. J. Ahmid | ||
| Technical institute – Hawija | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This study has been performed in Beshir area at north of Diyala city by planting seven species of cucurbit family plants through out the spring and fall seasons of 2014 , the field results of sensitivity test for the tested species to the infection of cucurbit fruit fly Dacus ciliatus (Loew(that the infection rates Shows in spring season are 74.37% , 41.89% and 11.62% for bottle gourd ,cucumber and snakemelo, respectively. While the rates for fall season were 88.39% ,69.09% and 45.25% respectively , and yield loss 51.37% , 26.61% and 13.02% in the spring season for bottle gourd , snakemelon and cucumber , 29.99% , 21.43% and 4.04% in the fall season respectively , the studied species were different in sensitivity degree to infect by the insect , bottle gourd , cucumber and snakemelon has the highest values of the studied criterion which are infection rate , yield losses ,loss in fruit length number of infection spots per fruit , the number of larvae per fruit and number of deformed fruits , making them the most sensitive species to infect by the fly , on the other hand watermelon , melon , pumpkin and squash observed to be non infected species , there fore they are not preferable species by the insect | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Cucurbit family; cucurbit fruit fly Dacus ciliatus; food preference; sensitively | ||
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