The use of traps and bait to fruit flies
Fruit fly trap is the fruit fly catcher Terro that is widely
used by market in excess of health factors, especially without the use of
chemical substances which directly attaches to the fruit as a cure to spray the
insects and smoke.
The use of fruit fly trap Terro is actually more to indoor
use with a bait trap method of money inviting fruit flies to enter into the
trap and couldn't get out again.
If you're looking for a terro fruit fly trap, please you can buy it online
at amazon, Walmart or home depot. Its usage is very easy. But if you want to
protect a fruit tree in the garden is still in your House then you can use a
homemade fruit fly trap. Here are some of the techniques, the use of trap
through the science of agriculture.
Homemade Fruit Fly Trap
From research in Hawaii about the response of fruit flies
against the colored lures and methyl eugenol indicates that female fruit flies
are attracted to approach the bait which is yellow and white though without
methyl eugenol. These options are based on the habit of looking for the fruit
to lay eggs, i.e. picking the fruit is yellow and white (e.g. Varieties of
guava yellowish white stone).
Male flies are more interested in yellow and white because
the male flies looking for sources of methyl eugenol are produced by some of
the flowers are yellow and white flowers such as golden shower (Cassia fistula
l.), and brexia (Brexia madagascariensis Thou.).
The use of the traps with bait is actually intended to
monitor populations of fruit flies that are on the field or to detect species
of fruit flies.
Controlling fruit flies using a trap with bait, lures will
be successful if the traps are installed continuously and in great numbers.
Feedback is used in the form of synthetic chemicals that can
smell or aroma of foods such as fruit flies, fruit aroma or smell the fragrance
of love flies females. Traps containing bait are already laced with insecticide
will attract fruit flies to enter into traps because lures and scents will
cause fruit flies die due to the influence of insecticides. Bait can be placed
in a given trap the adhesive so that the fruit flies that are attracted to the
bait will die because it is attached to the trap.
Traps are used preferably made from a lightweight and easily
obtainable like plastic, zinc, aluminum, thin paper or manila water resistant
with an assortment of shapes that have been modified into the type of trap with
bait traps baited with dry or liquid.
Trap berumpan mounted or hung on a twig or branch of a tree
with a height of 2--3 meters above ground level or at the height of the lowest
heading from the plant where the traps are installed.
b. Feedback
At the beginning of the use of bait to fruit flies, shaped
his food derived from plant material, taste Enhancer essence, and ammonia. The
advantage of this bait may attract flies males as well as females. In
Queensland, a commonly used food bait comprising a mixture of
grapefruit-ammonia; composition: 280 g orange peel 25 g carbon, ammonia, 600 ml
water and 1 g mercuric chloride acid. The mixture is dissolved in water 1:10 by
comparison.
The bait for the fruit flies were divided into several
groups:
• Group Of Cue-Lure
This group consists of a cue-lure (4-(p-acetoxhenyl) -2-butanone),
anisylacetate, and Wilson's lure (raspberry ketone). Cue-lure not produced in
nature, but in Malaysia there are reports (unconfirmed) that the cue-lure found
on Orchid plant. Unlike the cue-lure, raspberry ketone is produced naturally by
the plant. In the laboratory, raspberry ketone more interesting than the fruit
fly cue-lure. But on the Court the appearance of cue-lure is much better
compared to other components. The cue - lure can be used to draw from. cucurbitae,
b. fraunfeldi, b. trivialis, b. bryoniae, b. neohumeralis.
• Group Of Methyl-Eugenol (ME)
Methyl eugenol consists of ME, citronella oil and pine oil.
ME is the decoy very strong male insects, produced naturally in the 25 species
of plants from different families. Can this bait to attract b. musae, b.
umbrosa, b. dorsalis.
Another source that gives ME good hope is melaleuka oil
(Melaleuca brachteata) and oil of Basil (Ocimum basillium l.the report contains)
ME > 75%. However, for wide scale application, both those plants need to be
developed, in addition to the development of a simple and refiners are suitable
for small scale farmers or groups.
Fruit flies are attracted to bait ME is the male flies, so
the female flies still roam freely. In addition to material control (by adding
the insecticide), ME as well as to monitor the development of the population.
Group Med-lure
This group consists of terpinyl acetate trimedlure,-,
siglure, and medlure. So far, none of the fruit fly in the Asia Pacific region
interested in this group. However, this group can lure species Ceratitis sp.
Decoy Protein Substances
On the trap with liquid bait, lures the most effective is
the yeast autolisis. Power pikatnya can be strengthened by adding bacteria that
belong to the family Enterobacteriaceae. Yeast formulations comprising 42%
protein and 50% of materials solids, dissolved in 50 ml/l of water. When used
the way spraying directly onto the leaves of the plant canopy (not about fruit)
are being fruitful and nearing harvest, feed mixed with malathion or
khlorpirifos 0.2%. The use of this bait will attract almost all genera of
tephritid fruit flies included females.
In addition to using the trap you can also take advantage of
Natural Enemies (Biological Control) of the fruit fly population and to
overcome his attack
Is the biological control (utilization of natural enemies or
biological agents) using parasites or predators, to control or suppress
populations of fruit flies have a lot to do.
Predators of the common fruit fly are Ant (Hymenoptera:
Formicidae), spiders (Arachnida), stafilinid beetles (Coleoptera:
Staphylinidae) and cocopet (Dermaptera).
Nowadays already available technology of fruit fly
reproduction massively with artificial food, thus opening up opportunities for
huge mass duplication of its natural enemies. Thus, biological control of fruit
flies has a good prospect
