Seasonal monitoring of fruit fly, Bactrocera zonata (Saunders) and its parasitoids Trybliographa daci on guava fruit from Sindh Pakistan – JBES

Bhaikhan Solangi, Riffat Sultana, Nazir Ahmed, Muhammad Saeed Waganand, Abdul Rasool Abbassi

Department of Entomology, Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam, Pakistan

Department of Zoology, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan

Nuclear Institute of Agriculture (NIA), Tandojam, Pakistan

Department of Fresh Water Biology & Fisheries, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan

Key words: Seasonal monitoring, Bactrocera zonata, infested guava, parasitoid, Trybliographa daci.

Abstract

Seasonal monitoring of fruit flies, Bactrocera zonata and Bactrocera dorsalis was carried out by collecting the infested guava fruits for recording the larval parasitoid under laboratory conditions; and weekly trap catches for fruit fly species were also recorded. The B. zonata and B. Continue reading Seasonal monitoring of fruit fly, Bactrocera zonata (Saunders) and its parasitoids Trybliographa daci on guava fruit from Sindh Pakistan – JBES