Compare Between Three Types of Larval Food on Larvae of Ceretitis capitata (Wied)

Abstract

The Mediterranean fruit fly Ceretitis capitata is an important agricultural pest due to it has many hosts, they infect over 350 host of fruit as apricots, peaches, pears, and figs also attacking vegetables such as pepper, eggplant, and tomatoes, causing serious damage, it is a male sterilization technique program of the most important alternatives to control this insect and this requires the presence of large numbers of insects high quality, so we seek to increase the production of an insect using locally available materials and inexpensive material. In this study, the effect of three types of food on the breeding larvae Mediterranean fly in the laboratory for the purpose of obtaining a high proportion of insects from going out and flight, and gave food B containing a high proportion of protein the highest percentage emerge and flight compared with food A and C.