Evaluación de tres dietas alimenticias para la crianza de adultos de moscas sudamericana de la fruta (Anastrepha fraterculus Wied) en un sistema de crianza artificial

Abstract

The fruit fly is one of the most important pests in Ecuador, since it is capable of causing damage to a wide variety of fruit crops, significant economic losses to producers and the restriction on the export of fresh fruit. The traditional control methods used in Ecuador are insufficient to achieve adequate management and control of this quarantine pest, which is why the adoption of more efficient control methods is increasingly necessary in the country, one of them being the Technique. the Sterile Insect (TIE); however, the implementation of this technique requires, among other aspects, different from the economic one, to have knowledge of biological and technical aspects of mass rearing of the insect in question, such as the formulation of an efficient food diet for adult insects, since from having a breeding foot sufficiently well constituted and established, a permanent and competitive offspring can be guaranteed against the native populations of fruit flies, for which reason the present work aimed to identify a food diet suitable for artificial breeding systems of the South American fruit fly A. fraterculus Wied. For this, a breeding foot was established, to submit it to the evaluation of 3 food diets for adult flies, where they were evaluated as: life time of the adult fly, number of eggs laid, number of hatched eggs and an analysis of the diet in economic terms; for which a random block design was applied. Each type of diet was considered a treatment and for each treatment 4 repetitions were performed.