Soil compaction, moisture content and pupal burial depth as a new control strategy of peach fruit fly Bactrocera zonata (Diptera : Tephritidae)‎

Joint Authors

al-Jundi, Ismail R.
Abd Allah, Ahmad M.

Source

Egyptian Journal of Plant Protection Research Institute

Issue

Vol. 3, Issue 2 (30 Jun. 2020), pp.621-635, 15 p.

Publisher

Plant Protection Research Institute

Publication Date

2020-06-30

Country of Publication

Egypt

No. of Pages

15

Main Subjects

Botany

Abstract EN

Peach fruit fly (PFF) Bactrocera zonata (Saunders) (Diptera: Tephritidae) is one of the most deleterious tephritid flies of horticultural crops worldwide.

Since PFF spends a part of its life cycle in the soil as pre-pupae and pupae, the effects of soil texture (clay, loamy and sandy soil) on larval burrowing depth and pupal burial depth (0, 1, 2, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20 and 24 cm) on emerging adults of PFF were studied.

Moreover, the effects of both compaction and moisture (SM) of a sandy-loamy soil on adults’ emergence rates of PFF as well as soil hydraulic properties were investigated.

Soil compaction was tested at three compaction levels (without-, moderate- and severecompaction; corresponding to an increase in bulk density by 0.0, 11.0 and 22.0%, respectively) at three levels of moisture content (air dry soil, 20 and 80% of water content at field capacity) against PFF pupae.

Results indicated that the extremely burrowing depth of PFF larvae was 4 cm in clay soil, and 5 cm in both sandy and loamy soils.

In inversely proportional to pupal burial depth, the emerging flies relied significantly on both pupal depth and soil type.

In addition, emerged flies’ rates were negatively affected more by SM than soil compaction.

Furthermore, emerged flies correlated positively related with the total soil porosity (%), quickly drainable pores and slowly drainable pores.

Additionally, soil compaction altered soil hydraulic properties (i.e., total and air porosity, saturated hydraulic conductivity and water retention curve) by reducing the portion of macro pores and increasing micro pores.

The study concluded that moderate soil compaction can be significantly suppressed the PFF population and enhanced soil hydraulic properties; therefore, soil compaction could be an important approach in integrated pest management (IPM) against PFF.

American Psychological Association (APA)

al-Jundi, Ismail R.& Abd Allah, Ahmad M.. 2020. Soil compaction, moisture content and pupal burial depth as a new control strategy of peach fruit fly Bactrocera zonata (Diptera : Tephritidae). Egyptian Journal of Plant Protection Research Institute،Vol. 3, no. 2, pp.621-635.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1252830

Modern Language Association (MLA)

al-Jundi, Ismail R.& Abd Allah, Ahmad M.. Soil compaction, moisture content and pupal burial depth as a new control strategy of peach fruit fly Bactrocera zonata (Diptera : Tephritidae). Egyptian Journal of Plant Protection Research Institute Vol. 3, no. 2 (2020), pp.621-635.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1252830

American Medical Association (AMA)

al-Jundi, Ismail R.& Abd Allah, Ahmad M.. Soil compaction, moisture content and pupal burial depth as a new control strategy of peach fruit fly Bactrocera zonata (Diptera : Tephritidae). Egyptian Journal of Plant Protection Research Institute. 2020. Vol. 3, no. 2, pp.621-635.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1252830

Data Type

Journal Articles

Language

English

Notes

Includes bibliographical references : p. 631-635

Record ID

BIM-1252830