Intensity of Attack Caused by Mediterranean Fruit Fly Ceratitis capitata Wiedem. (Diptera, Tephritidae) on Mandarin along the Montenegrin Seacoast
Intenzitet napada mediteranske voćne muve Ceratitis capitata Wiedem. (Diptera, Tephritidae) na mandarini na području Crnogorskog primorja
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Radonjic, Sanja
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Mediterranean fruit flyCeratitis capitata
Mandarin
Intensity of attack
Mediteranska voćna muva
mandarina
intenzitet napada
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Along the Montenegrin seacoast, all cultivated citrus species (mandarin, orange, lemon,
grapefruit), fig, loquat and ziziphus were detected as host plants of the Ceratitis capitata Wiedem.
Among those found, in economic sense, the most important host plant is mandarin
Unšiu.
Intensity of the attack were monitored on mandarin in 2003 and 2004 in localities Baošiæi,
Lastva Grbaljska and Bar, and was determined as higher in 2003. The first symptoms of
attack were detected, depending on locality, from middle of September until beginning of
October, one to two months earlier then in 2004. The maximum number of larvae per fruit
were detected in October and November (average from 13.44±0.16 to 22.82±0.13). Time
of the first symptoms appearence on mandarin in September and October 2003 and in November
2004, indicate on crucial importance of alternative host plants (figs and loquat) for
reproduction and increasing of C. capitata population, because later during a season its intensity
of attack on mandarin, depend largely on their presence. Na području Crnogorskog primorja kao domaćini mediteranske voćne muve Ceratitis
capitata Wiedem. utvrđene su sve vrste citrusa (mandarina, pomorandža, limun, grejpfrut),
smokva, japanska jabuka – kaki i iglica. U ekonomskom smislu, za sada je, kao domaćin,
najznačajnija mandarina unšiu. Tokom 2003. i 2004. godine praćen je intenzitet napada
na mandarini u lokalitetima Baošići, Lastva Grbaljska i Bar. Jači napad utvrđen je 2003. godine.
Tada su prvi simptomi zabilježeni, zavisno od lokaliteta, od polovine septembra do početka
oktobra, jedan do dva meseca ranije nego 2004, a najveći broj larvi u plodu nađen
je tokom oktobra i novembra, prosečno od 13,44±0,16 do 22,82±0,13. Vreme pojave prvih
simptoma napada u 2003. (septembar i oktobar) i 2004. (novembar) ukazuju na značaj prelaznih
domaćina (smokva i japanska jabuka) za održavanje i umnožavanje populacije C. capitata,
jer intenzitet napada mediteranske voćne muve na mandarini, u mnogome zavisi od
njihovog prisustva.