Efficacy of Different Coloured Traps in Capturing Fruit Flies in Mango Orchard

Studies were made on evaluation on the efficacy of different coloured traps in capturing fruit flies in mango orchards at G.K.V.K campus, Bangalore during the first fortnight of May 2008. When the total fruit flies irrespective of species were considered, yellow traps attracted more number of fruit flies with the mean trap catches of 18.60 fruit flies/trap/week followed by transparent and green colour traps (8.40 and 7.00 fruit flies/trap/week) which was at par with orange colour traps (4.80 fruit flies/trap/week). The lowest number of fruit flies was captured in orange colour traps.