Two-sex Life Table Parameters of Oriental Fruit Fly Bactrocera dorsalisBactrocera dorsalis (Diptera: Tephritidae) on Methyl Eugenol-Based Diet | [Pakistan Journal of Zoology • 2025]

Author(s):

1. Saleem Jafar: Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510640, China

2. Muhammad Yasin: Department of Zoology, University of Baltistan, Skardu, Pakistan

3. Muhammad Mazahir: Institute of Food and Nutritional Sciences, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University,Rawalpindi-46300, Pakistan

4. Ajmal Hussain: Department of Zoology, University of Baltistan, Skardu, Pakistan

5. Aftab Ahmad Khan: Agricultural Research Institute,Swat, KPK, Pakistan

6. Sajjad Hussain: Department of Plant Pathology, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University,Rawalpindi,Pakistan

Abstract:

Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel) is an economically significant pest of fruits and vegetables worldwide. The B. dorsalis has invaded over seventy countries, including China, and has caused massive losses to a part of the agricultural ecosystem. Fundamental data about B. dorsalis is a prime necessity for implication of integrated management. Two-sex life table traits are better procedure as compared to traditional life table because two sex life table tools describe both male and female sexes. Demographic traits of the oriental fruit fly have been studied on natural and artificial diets via both traditional and two-sex life tables. However, this study describes the age-stage two-sex life table parameters of this frugivores fly on methyl eugenol (ME) based diet and laboratory made diet. Results showed that the larval duration of B. dorsalis was shorter on a methyl eugenol mixed diet, and the total fecundity of B. dorsalis was slightly higher on methyl eugenol diet as compared to control diet. Reproductive parameters including R0, GRR, r, and ? of B. dorsalis flies were highest on the methyl eugenol mixed diet in compared to the control diet. Mating pair success percentage was increased in B. dorsalis when reared on the ME-mixed diet in comparison to those deprived of the methyl eugenol diet. This study concluded that methyl eugenol is an accelerates for mating success and fitness of B. dorsalis reared in a laboratory condition. Our findings will be helpful for future work regarding methyl eugenol implication against the B. dorsalis and related sibling species.

Page(s): 1167-1177

DOI: 10.17582/journal.pjz/20230628030638

Published: Journal: Pakistan Journal of Zoology, Volume: 57, Issue: 3, Year: 2025

Keywords:

Methyl eugenol , dorsalis , Fitness , B , Tephritidae , Population traits , Two sex life parameters

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