Research Article

Species Composition of Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) on Selected Fruit Crops in Northeastern Ethiopia

Table 5

Mean B. dorsalis adults trapped per week at Kalu, Kobo, and Habru districts in eastern Amhara, Ethiopia, in 2018.

Sources of variationsBactrocera dorsalis number/per trap per week
LocationAttractants

HabruMethyl eugenol90 (1.91)c
Protein hydrolase2.7 (0.39)f
Torula yeast1.8 (0.32)f
Control0.0 (0)g

Mean23.6

KaluMethyl eugenol722.2 (2.81)a
Protein hydrolase9.4 (0.89)d
Torula yeast6.0 (0.67)e
Control0.0 (0)g

Mean184.4

KoboMethyl eugenol376.5 (2.56)b
Protein hydrolase5.7 (0.61)e
Torula yeast2.5 (0.43)f
Control0.0 (0)g

Mean96.2

Grand mean101.4

CV (%)30.7

Location value<0.001

Attractant value<0.001

Note. Value in parenthesis shows Log10 () transformed results of the data.