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Comparative Ovipositional Preference of the Peach Fruit Fly, Bactrocera zonata (Saunders) (Diptera: Tephritidae) for Selected Fruits under Free-Choice Laboratory Setting

Comparative Ovipositional Preference of the Peach Fruit Fly, Bactrocera zonata (Saunders) (Diptera: Tephritidae) for Selected Fruits under Free-Choice Laboratory Setting

Muhammad Salman*, Muhammad Hamayoon Khan, Muhammad Zahid, Gul Zamin Khan, Fazli Rahim and Usman Khalique

Plant Protection Division, Nuclear Institute for Food and Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan.

 
*Correspondence | Muhammad Salman, Plant Protection Division, Nuclear Institute for Food and Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan; Email: [email protected]

Figure 1:

Percent of male and female peach fruit flies calculated from the tested fruits. The means followed by same letters are not significantly different at P=0.05. Error bars denote standard error values.

Figure 2:

Host preference of B. zonata in terms of total pupal recovery and flies’ emergence in four different fruits under free choice test.

Sarhad Journal of Agriculture

December

Pakistan J. Zool., Vol. 56, Iss. 6, pp. 2501-3000

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