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1 October 2006 Attractiveness of Various Combinations of Colors and Shapes to Females and Males of Bactrocera minax (Diptera: Tephritidae) in a Commercial Mandarin Grove in Bhutan
Richard A. I. Drew, Chencho Dorji, Meredith C. Romig, Phuntsho Loday
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Abstract

Bactrocera minax (Enderlein) (Diptera: Tephritidae) is a major pest of citrus fruit in the region from Nepal through to southwestern China. In tests on wild adult populations of B. minax in a mandarin, Citrus reticulata Blanco, orchard in western Bhutan, both males and females were more attracted to 50-mm-diameter spheres than to 50-mm discs of the same color. Furthermore, they were more attracted to spheres colored with orange or green–yellow mixtures than to similar spheres colored red, yellow, green, blue, black, or white. The UV reflectance from the orange (600–650 nm) and yellow–green mixtures (530 nm) was similar to that proposed byProkopy (1977) as eliciting strong attractant responses in other species of Tephritidae.

Richard A. I. Drew, Chencho Dorji, Meredith C. Romig, and Phuntsho Loday "Attractiveness of Various Combinations of Colors and Shapes to Females and Males of Bactrocera minax (Diptera: Tephritidae) in a Commercial Mandarin Grove in Bhutan," Journal of Economic Entomology 99(5), 1651-1656, (1 October 2006). https://doi.org/10.1603/0022-0493-99.5.1651
Received: 30 November 2005; Accepted: 1 July 2006; Published: 1 October 2006
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KEYWORDS
attraction
behavior
field control
traps
visual response
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