Fruit Fly Pest Integrated Management

Fruit Fly Pest Integrated Management

ABSTRACT

Fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) is one of the most serious pests in the world. The fruit flies of the family Tephritidae constitute a group of agricultural pests of worldwide importance, as they attack a wide range of fruits and vegetables. It causes more over 30% crops damage, because the crops become rotten and dried off rapidly.

It has four main life stages: egg, larva, pupa, and imago (adult flies). The most important for spread of fruit fly is imago (adult stage) and larva (maggot stage). Adult female injects the eggs beneath the fruit skins, when the eggs become larva it will eat entire vegetable or fruit. The life cycle becomes the basic information to determine the pest integrated management for fruit fly.

Nowadays, the biological control for fruit fly research still expand. The main purpose is for finding the most effective and safety for environment and human being. The methods are sterile adult male technique, methyl eugenol male attractant, natural enemies (parasite/ parasitoid), trap with bait in a sugar-hydrolyzed protein form.

Keyword: Fruit Fly, Life stage, biological control, methyl eugenol, parasite, parasitoid, trap.

GILANG KINASIHAN 10604052