Effect of Host Pupae Age and Depth in Plant Debris on the Searching Efficiency of Pupal Parasitoid Dirhinus giffardii (Silvestri) on Oriental Fruit Fly Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel)
Zarnosh Habib1, Muhammad Ibrahim2*, Nasir Shah2, Israr Ullah3 and Norman Javed Gill4
1Department of Entomology, Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam, Hyderabad, Pakistan; 2Department of Agriculture Extension, Kalat, Balochistan, Pakistan; 3Department of Plant Protection, Ministry of National Food Security and Research, Karachi, Pakistan; 4Agriculture Information, Department of Agriculture Extension, Balochistan, Quetta, Pakistan.
*Correspondence | Muhammad Ibrahim, Department of Agriculture Extension, Kalat, Balochistan, Pakistan; Email: ibrahimafridi811@gmail.com
Figure 1:
Correlation between percent of B. dorsalis pupae parasitized by D. giffardii with (A) depth of host pupae in plant debris and (B) the age of host pupae. Two-factor factorial ANOVA was conducted. Means sharing similar letters are not significantly different by post-hoc LSD at P ≤ 0.05.