Vol. 11, Special Issue 8 (2022)

Author(s):
Gaurav Bhagat, Uma Shankar, Amit Kumar Singh and Yousra Mukhtar

Abstract:
An experimental study was carried out at mango fruit orchards of SKUAST-J for two consecutive years (2019 and 2020) to evaluate the efficacy of Male Annihilation Technique (MAT) and Bait Attractant Technique (BAT) in managing the fruit fly population in mango. The results revealed that the population of fruit flies commenced from 9^th to 32^nd standard weeks in ME+Malathion and Banana+yeast+spinosad traps and 11^th standard week in Fishmeal+diazinon trap during 2019. Two peaks of fruit fly populations were recorded in 24^th standard week for ME+Malathion and Banana+yeast+spinosad and 29^th standard week in Fishmeal+diazinon traps with second peak population in 32^nd standard week for all the three treatments. During 2020, the fruit fly population commenced from 9^th standard week in all the three traps. The fruit fly population peaked in 21^st standard week with second peak in 28^th standard week for all the three treatments. The fruit fly trap catches in all the three treatments were significantly different from each other.