Fauna of genus Bactrocera fruit flies in guava orchards of district Larkana, Sindh Pakistan

Abstract

This present study started in the month of July 2017 to November 2017. 14465 fruit flies were captured through bottles filled with the methyl eugenol and sex pheromone from the guava orchards of three different localities of district Larkana namely village sher Muhammad jamali, village choharpur and village naudero and sorted out into genus bactrocera along with two species namely Bacrtocera zonata and B. dorsalis. They have central job in guava orchards of different places of district Larkana and above genus is first time recorded from three different localities of Larkana district.