Pest Management Science (2019) 75, 1671-1680

Ilich Figueroa Candia, Veronica Bautista, Sebastian Larsson Herrera, Abigail Walter, Noel Ortuño Castro, Marco Tasin and Teun Dekker (2019)
Potential of locally sustainable food baits and traps against the Mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis capitata in Bolivia
Pest Management Science 75 (6), 1671-1680
Abstract:
BACKGROUND
Small-scale farmers often take a double hit from pests such as tephritid fruit-flies. The high price of products against fruit-flies, together with the higher risk of reinfestation from neighboring orchards, limits options for control. Therefore, management requires low-cost local products and concerted action. Peach production in central Bolivia is increasingly affected by invasive Ceratitis capitata. To provide locally sustainable techniques that could incentivize area-wide cooperation of growers, we tested efficiency and specificity of low-cost lures and traps compared with commercial lures and traps (Tephritrap).
RESULTS
In the laboratory, the local fermented beverage 'chicha' and baker's yeast were equally or more attractive than commercial lures. Both chicha and baker's yeast trapped more flies in field (average FTD 10.31 and 9.49), whereas commercially hydrolyzed protein lure (4.71) or Torula yeast (6.82). However, many non-target species were caught (57.3% and 53.4%). Of the six PET bottles-based traps used, the T-trap caught a similar number of flies (average FTD 5.55), but fewer beneficial insects (0.16) compared to the Tephritrap (0.92).
CONCLUSIONS
This study provides fruit growers with an economical and effective method to capture large numbers of C. capitata, suitable to be part of integrated pest management programs for fruit fly control.
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Database assignments for author(s): Marco Tasin

Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
pheromones/attractants/traps

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Ceratitis capitata	Peach/nectarine (Prunus persica)	Bolivia