The feeding toxicity of the natural insecticide, Spinosad and fipronil in Provesta protein bait was evaluated for three economically important fruit fly species, the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata, the melon fly, Dacus cucurbitae and the oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis. Provesta bait containing Spinosad and fipronil was also evaluated against two parasitoids of Tephritid fruit flies, Fopius arisanus (Sonan) and Pysttalia flethceri (Silvestri). These parasitoids would not feed on the bait, so a contact toxicity test was conducted. Additionally, fipronil was evaluated as a soil insecticide for control of adult tephritid emergence. Both of these products appear to be promising controls for fruit flies that are less damagging to biocontrols than organophosphates.
Species 1: Diptera Tephritidae Bactrocera dorsalis (Oriental fruit fly)
Species 2: Diptera Tephritidae Ceratitis capitata (Mediterranean fruit fly)
Species 3: Diptera Tephritidae Bactrocera cucurbitae (melon fly)
Keywords: spinosad, fipronil
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