Offseason Medfly Trapping Using Makeshift Fruit-Based and Wine Vinegar Baits

Guillemain, María J.; Nieto, Leonardo Martín; Suárez, L.; Rull, Juan; Ovruski, Sérgio M.; Acosta, Juan Carlos; Molina, Diego Alonso Restrepo; Murúa, Fernando

doi:10.1007/s13744-020-00844-0

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“…These particular foodbased baits were chosen because similar baits have previously been used in monitoring other fruit flies e.g. Bactrocera minax (Enderlein), Ceratitis capitata Wiedemann, Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura) (Beers et al 2011;Landolt et al 2012;Zhou et al 2012;Lee et al 2013;Burrack et al 2015;Guillemain et al 2021). Palm wine and sugarcane spirit were particularly chosen because they are common and relatively cheap in most parts of Africa, Asia and South America (Alcarde et al 2014;Bortoletto & Alcarde 2015).…”

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Palm wine as a food-based bait for monitoring adult Ceratitis ditissima (Munro) (Diptera: Tephritidae) in citrus orchards

Abraham¹,

Amissah²,

Kuffour³

et al. 2023

Afr. Entomol.

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Tephritid fruit flies, including Ceratitis ditissima, often invade citrus orchards. These flies cause economic losses to farmers and can prevent farmers from exporting their fruits to foreign markets. To detect the presence of fruit flies in citrus orchards, traps are baited with synthetic lures, which are often expensive for smallholder farmers. Farmers in developing or financially less-endowed countries have to import such synthetic baits, raising the cost of pest monitoring and control. Therefore, we evaluated the potential of palm wine and three other food-based mixtures for trapping C. ditissima and the proportion of non-target flies they trap. Transparent deli cup traps were baited with four different food-based baits, namely palm wine, sugarcane spirit-wine mixture, apple cider vinegar and yeast-sugar mixture. The traps were placed within a citrus orchard on fruit-bearing trees. The content of each trap was collected after one week and evaluated. This was repeated for eight consecutive weeks. Traps baited with palm wine captured more C. ditissima than those with the other baits. Furthermore, the proportion of non-target insects, Bactrocera dorsalis and Drosophila spp., in palm wine-baited traps was less than the other baited traps. This study indicates that palm wine, a cheap beverage across Africa, Asia and South America, could be used to monitor the presence of C. ditissima in citrus orchards. Smallholder farmers who cannot afford expensive synthetic baits could make use of palm wine to monitor fruit flies in their farms.

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