Methyl Bromide Fumigation Followed by Cold Storage as a Treatment for Anastrepha suspense (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Grapefruit
- 1 October 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Economic Entomology
- Vol. 75 (5) , 860-862
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/75.5.860
Abstract
The combination of fumigation-cold storage treatments found to be most effective for controlling infestations of Anastrepha suspensa (Loew) in grapefruit were 40 g of methyl bromide (MB) per m3, followed by storage at 15.6°C for 3 weeks, and 32 g of MB per m3 at 10°C for 3 weeks, 24 g of MB per m3 and 7.2°C for 3 weeks, and 32 g of MB per m3 and 7.2°C for 17 days. Insertion of a regimen of 15.6°C for 1 week (conditioning of fruit to avoid chilling injury) between fumigation and the cold storage period did not reduce the effectiveness of the two treatments involving storage at 7.2°C.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: