Ismail, E., Atef, N., Tarek, A. (2020). Response of Peach Fruit Fly, Bactrocera zonata (Saunders) to the Essential Oil of Cubeb Pepper, Piper cubeba Bojer. test, 13(2), 283-293. doi: 10.21608/eajbsa.2020.91659
El-Gendy, Ismail; Nassar, Atef; Abdel-Hafeez, Tarek. "Response of Peach Fruit Fly, Bactrocera zonata (Saunders) to the Essential Oil of Cubeb Pepper, Piper cubeba Bojer". test, 13, 2, 2020, 283-293. doi: 10.21608/eajbsa.2020.91659
Ismail, E., Atef, N., Tarek, A. (2020). 'Response of Peach Fruit Fly, Bactrocera zonata (Saunders) to the Essential Oil of Cubeb Pepper, Piper cubeba Bojer', test, 13(2), pp. 283-293. doi: 10.21608/eajbsa.2020.91659
Ismail, E., Atef, N., Tarek, A. Response of Peach Fruit Fly, Bactrocera zonata (Saunders) to the Essential Oil of Cubeb Pepper, Piper cubeba Bojer. test, 2020; 13(2): 283-293. doi: 10.21608/eajbsa.2020.91659

Response of Peach Fruit Fly, Bactrocera zonata (Saunders) to the Essential Oil of Cubeb Pepper, Piper cubeba Bojer

Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences. A, Entomology
Article 21, Volume 13, Issue 2, June 2020, Pages 283-293    PDF (598.02 K)
Document Type: Original Article
DOI: 10.21608/eajbsa.2020.91659
Authors
El-Gendy, Ismail1; Nassar, Atef2; Abdel-Hafeez, Tarek1
1Plant Protection Research Institute, Agriculture Research Center, Giza, Egypt
2Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Damanhour University, Damanhour, El-Beheira, Egypt
Abstract
Peach fruit fly, Bactrocera zonata (Fam: Tephritidae, or: Diptera), is a quarantine insect-pest that infests various commercial fruit and vegetable crops in Egypt. Almost all the monitoring and control strategies of this flydepend on the use of the para-pheromone methyl eugenol (ME) as a sex attractant of male flies. Therefore, the current study aimed to investigate the potential use of the essential oil of berries of cubeb pepper (tailed pepper) (CEO), Piper cubeba (Fam: Piperaceae) as an attractant for B.zonata flies. CEO was extracted using the hydro-distillation scavenging apparatus from cubeb berries and chemically analyzed by GC-MS. The CEO was assayed in the attraction of B. zonata flies compared with the recommended dose of para-pheromone ME. Results showed that ME and the CEOat the different concentrations had attracted male flies and no females. Remarkably, there were no significant differences between ME and crude CEO in attracting the male flies. The GC-MS results revealed about 29 major constituents of CEO; the eugenol was the major constituent (45.88%)of the CEO, followed by 3-methyl-pentane (15.36%), methyl-cyclopentane (9.198%), and methyl eugenol (6.093%). These findings explaine the effective role of CEO as a male attractant of B. zonata and it could be used as an alternative to the ME, which would conserve a huge amount of money spent on buying the chemical ME.
Keywords
Fruit fly; sex attractants; essential oils; GC-MS; pest management
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