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Attractants for Atherigona spp. including sorghum shoot fly (Atherigona soccata Rond., Muscidae: Diptera).

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Title Attractants for Atherigona spp. including sorghum shoot fly (Atherigona soccata Rond., Muscidae: Diptera).
 
Creator Reddy, K V S
Skinner, J D
Davies, J C
 
Subject Sorghum
 
Description The use of tish meal and determent water has been shown lo hi- simple, economic and reliable for sampling of shootfly population* Various mixtures of tish meal with other ingredients were evaluated The most potent mixture was tish meal yeast ammonium sulphide, but generally tish meal alone was adequate and the most readily available at tract ant, The altractancc of tish meal was found lo be related to its degradation, it increased from the first to the thud or fourth day. and (hen decreased The chemicals responsible for the altractancc of tish meal ha\e yet lo be identified, bin in all probahilih they may be the amines resulting from biodcgradation of the meal.
 
Publisher International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya
 
Date 1981
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/3623/1/CP_004.pdf
Reddy, K V S and Skinner, J D and Davies, J C (1981) Attractants for Atherigona spp. including sorghum shoot fly (Atherigona soccata Rond., Muscidae: Diptera). Insect Science and its Application, 2 (1-2). pp. 83-86. ISSN 0191-9040