ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS AFFECTING THE IMMATURE STAGES MORTALITY OF Bacrocera papayae | ||
Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology | ||
Article 1, Volume 3, Issue 5, May 2012, Pages 397-408 PDF (277.17 K) | ||
Document Type: Original Article | ||
DOI: 10.21608/jppp.2012.83783 | ||
Author | ||
F. A. Muttardy | ||
Faculty of Science ,Department of Zoology. University of Benghazi, | ||
Abstract | ||
Three major parasitoids of Bacrocera papyae (Drew) were recorded in papaya , Biosters vandenboschi, B. longicaudatus and B.arisanus.Relationships between total initial hosts ( B.papayae immatures ) and total hosts killed by each parasitoid species good correlation and parasitoids relationships were not density dependent. The percentage of the larvae that survived through fruit factors was 84.2% in soil, the soil factors reduced survival to 21.3%, amongst the soil, weather accounted for 45.5% biotic factors 16.5 and physical factors 2.5%.While predator ant ( Dolicholderus and Componotus sp. ) 19.1% of mortality. | ||
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