Population Fluctuation and Faunistic Analysis of Fruit Flies in a Commercial Guava Orchard (Psidium guajava L.)

Abstract

Knowledge of the population fluctuation of a pest in an orchard allows the producer preventing and making use of techniques that control the insect pest before it causes economic damages. The objective of the present work was to verify fruit fly species population dynamics in a commercial of Psidium guajava L. (Myrtaceae) orchard in the Curimataú microregion of Paraíba, also to characterize the community of fruit flies through faunistic analysis as well. Fruits were collected biweekly, the total was 24 collections between August 2014 and July 2015 in the municipality of Nova Floresta-PB. Fruits were preferentially collected mature or at the beginning of maturation, differentiating fruits harvested on the soil, plants, and through PET traps containing different food attractants. After collection, fruits were kept in plastic trays filled with a layer of two centimeters of sterilized sand and covered with fabric ‘voil’. The trays were labeled with the field data and placed in a greenhouse. Past the period of 15-25 days the fruits, already in the stage of decomposition were examined in order to collect pupae and larvae of 3rd instar. A total of 462 specimens of fruit flies were collected in 12 months sampling period, they were collected from fruits gathered from the ground and from the tree, and through trapping, being 209 males and 253 females, all collected in P. guajava. From the results obtained during the sampling period, a total of four species were recorded by fruit collection and six species by a trap. A new specimen of Anastrepha was found that there was no register in Paraíba yet, Anastrepha hadropickeli Canal, Uramoto and Zucchi (2013), as well as a Rhagoletis sp. (Loew).

BIODIVERSITY AND POPULATION DISTRIBUTION OF FRUIT FLY (Diptera: Tephritidae) IN DOMESTIC ORCHARDS OF PARAÍBA STATE, BRAZIL

“…Ceratitis capitata is an exotic species and the only representative of its kind in the country (ZUCCHI, 2000b). Despite the large number species of the genus Anastrepha described nationally, only 8 have been recorded in the state of Paraíba (ALVES et al, 2019a;ALVES et al, 2019b;SILVA et al, 2019).…”

Altura de voo e composição de espécies de >i<Anastrepha>/i< Schiner, 1868 (Diptera: Tephritidae) em ambiente antropizado

“…A obtenção de informações a respeito da dinâmica populacional das moscasdas-frutas e análises faunísticas, compreendem um parâmetro de fundamental importância para todos os produtores de frutas no mundo (OLIVEIRA et al, 2017;ALVES et al, 2019). Os estudos desses fatores podem influenciar na tomada de decisão e obter respostas relacionadas ao pomar, por exemplo, qual espécie é pragachave, em qual período sazonal ocorre determinada espécie de mosca-das-frutas, a disponibilidade de alimento e ainda compreender os impactos das condições ambientais (precipitação pluvial, temperatura e umidade relativa do ar) no pomar (ALUJA et al, 2012;ALVES et al, 2019).…”