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Attraction, feeding, oviposition, and control of Rhagoletis indifferens exposed to GF-120 bait spray

Wee L. Yee, wlyee@yarl.ars.usda.gov, USDA-ARS, 5230 Konnowac Pass Road, Wapato, WA and Tim Smith, Washington State University, 303 Palouse Street, Wenatchee, WA.

The effects of the bait spray GF-120 against the western cherry fruit fly were determined in laboratory and field studies. Flies were attracted to a 1:1.5 GF-120: water dilution in the laboratory when starved for 24 hours, but were not highly attracted when not starved or when exposed to lower dilutions (1:20 and 1:160). Flies also fed on droplets of the high dilution more so than to drolets of lower dilutions. Cherries dipped in high dilutions of GF-120 and exposed to gravid females in the laboratory generally were free of infestation. In the field, GF-120 at high dilutions but not low dilutrions were effective in controlling cherry fruit flies.


Species 1: Diptera Tephritidae Rhagoletis indifferens (Western Cherry Fruit Fly)
Keywords: Rhagoletis indifferens, GF-120

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