Oriental Fruit Fly 23/10/2021

MSc Huynh Kim Ngoc

The Oriental fruit fly, scientifically known as Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel), belongs to the family Trypetidae, order Diptera. The fruit fly is a polyphagous insect that damages more than 30 types of fruit and vegetable crops. There are many species of fruit flies, the most common of which are B. dorsalis, B.coresta, B.cucurbitea.

 

Damages:

The fruit fly is an important pest in temperate, subtropical and tropical regions. In many mango growing areas in Vietnam, flies cause serious damage. Flies prefer to lay eggs on ripe fruit, but also on green fruit. The fruit skin where it is bored by flies is black, soft, and oozing with sap that attracts insects and fungi to lay eggs, causing damage to the fruit, causing discoloration and rot. Fruit infested with flies may drop before ripening or remain anchored on the tree. If the fruit is still on the tree, the commercial value is also reduced because the pulp of the fruit is rotten. Flies not only reduce yield and quality, but also prevent mangoes from being exported because flies are the leading subject of quarantine in many countries around the world.

Biological properties:

Flies (adults) are about 6-9 mm long, with a wingspan of about 8-12 mm, yellow-brown in color with black stripes on the abdomen. Female flies are larger than male ones and have long, pointed egg-laying needles at the end of their abdomens. Flies after hatching 3-4 days will pair and lay eggs. Female flies prefer to lay eggs on ripe fruit. One can lay 150- 400 eggs. When laying, the fly uses an egg-laying needle to prick the left skin at the junction between the skin and the fruit pulp and lays eggs in clusters. The average length of the eggs is 1.0 - 1.5 mm, the ends are pointed, slightly curved, the newly laid eggs are white, turn yellow and hatch after 1-3 days. Newly hatched larvae (maggots) are pale yellow, bore to the fruit pulp, the larger the larvae, the deeper they penetrate inside, making the fruit damaged, rotten, and oozing out water. The larval stage occurs inside the fruit, lasts about 8-10 days, through 2 molts (3 years old) before shrinking and snapping out of the fruit to pupate in the soil. The pupal stage occurs in the soil layer about 1 - 5 cm deep, lasts 7 - 10 days, then after being pupated , larvae turn adults fly out of the ground and continue a new cycle. The life cycle of male flies is about 20-30 days.

Treatment:

• Harvest early when the fruit is just ripe to avoid harmful flies and infection.

• Do not intercrop guava, papaya, citrus, longan... in the mango orchard.

• Fruit covering: When the mango is about the size of a chicken egg, it should cover the fruit it should cover the fruit, in addition to preventing fruit flies, the fruit bag also helps prevent anthracnose, bottom rot, seed borer, etc. Although fruit covering takes time and effort, but save costs and make the fruit skin more beautiful and attractive.

• Herbal medicine: Use holy basil / basil and smash it into pieces , hang on the tree to attract flies, then spray insecticide.

• Field sanitation: Collect and destroy (burn or bury) mango fruit that falls to the ground as well as remains on the tree after harvest because that is where flies live.

• Lure traps: Use ripe bananas, oranges, pineapples... mixed with pesticides (SecSaigon 5, 10EC, Sherzol EC) to attract and kill flies. Set 30-100 traps / 1 hectare of garden.

• Chemical spraying: Can spray Roninda 100SL or spray SK Enspray 99EC mineral oil (0.2%). It is recommended to spray twice during the fruiting period, note the isolation time printed on the label

 

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