doi:10.14720/aas.2017.109.3.08 Original research article / izvirni znanstveni članek Effect of geographical directions, height and the color of yellow traps in capture of Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann, 1824) in citrus orchards Amir Hossein TOORANI1, Habib ABBASIPOUR2* Received July 27, 2017; accepted November 30, 2017. Delo je prispelo 27. julija 2017, sprejeto 30. novembra 2017. ABSTRACT Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann, 1824) (Dip.: Tephritidae) is one of the most destructive agricultural pests in the world. To replace chemical control methods, as well as the timing of the peak population of Mediterranean fruit fly, the yellow sticky vertical traps were used in this study. The research was carried out in some citrus orchards of various cities of Mazandaran province of Iran, during the four months from August to November 2016. To determine the best type of yellow color to trap this fly, four types of yellow colors with measured wavelength of reflection, including the fluorescent yellow (538 nm), lemon yellow (574 nm), yellow (602 nm) and amber yellow (641 nm), were used. Also, to determine the best geographical direction and appropriate height for installation of yellow cards, four cardinal directions and five different heights of 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5 and 3 m above ground level were determined and the cards were installed. The results of mean comparison of captured flies in different treatments showed that there are significant differences between all of them. The results indicated that the fluorescent yellow, heights of 1.5 and 2 m, the south direction, and month October had the highest number of capture in yellow cards. Key words: Mediterranean fruit fly; yellow sticky trap; mass trapping; citrus; Iran IZVLEČEK VPLIV NEBESNE LEGE, VIŠINE NAMESTITVE IN BARVE RUMENIH PASTI NA ULOV BRESKOVE MUHE (Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann, 1824)) V SADOVNJAKIH CITRUSOV Breskova muha (Ceratitis capitata [Wiedemann, 1824], (Dip.: Tephritidae)) je eden od najpomembnejših škodljivcev gojenih rastlin v svetu. Za nadomestitev kemičnega zatiranja in za ugotavljanje viška populacij breskove muhe so bile v tej raziskavi uporabljene navpično nameščene rumene, lepljive pasti. Raziskava je potekala v izbranih sadovnjakih citrusov v različnih krajih province Mazandaran v Iranu, v času štirih mesecev, od avgusta do novembra leta 2016. Za določitev najustreznejše rumene barve pasti za lovljenje muh so bili izbrani 4 odtenki rumene barve, vključujoč fluorescentno rumeno z naslednjimi valovnimi dolžinami odbite svetlobe: fluorescentno rumena (538 nm), limonino rumena (574 nm), rumena (602 nm) in rjavo (smolnato)-rumena (641 nm). Za določitev najustreznejše nebesne smeri in višine namestitve rumenih plošč so bile izbrane štiri glavne nebesne smeri in pet različnih višin namestitev nad tlemi, in sicer 1, 1,5, 2, 2,5 in 3 m. Izsledki primerjav povprečij ulovljenih muh glede na različne namestitve pasti so pokazali, da so med njimi značilne razlike. Izsledki so pokazali, da se je ujelo največ muh v oktobru na fluorescentno rumene plošče, nameščene od 1,5 in 2 m nad tlemi, v južni legi. Ključne besede: breskova muha; rumena lepljiva past; masovno lovljenje; citrus; Iran 1 INTRODUCTION Mediterranean fruit fly (Medfly), Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann, 1824) (Dip.: Tephritidae) is one of the most important pests of citrus (White & Elson-Harris, 1992). The damage amount of these pests to fruits is relatively high and sometimes, up to a hundred percent of fruits are infected by the pests (Fimiani, 1989). The pest has been established for about a century in Hawaii and despite persistent and costly eradication efforts, is repeatedly detected in Florida and California (Carey, 1996; Jang, 2007). It is estimated that the cost of each of 1 Postgraduate MSc. Student, Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran 2 Professor, Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran Corresponding author: Habbasipour@yahoo.com Acta agriculturae Slovenica, 109 - 3, december 2017 str. 561 - 507 Amir Hossein TOORANI and Habib ABBASIPOUR its previous incursions into the US (eradication and industry loss) ranged from US$ 300,000 to US$ 200 M (APHIS, 1992). Medfly outbreaks in California during the past 25 years have cost taxpayers nearly $500 million, while the Medfly outbreak in Florida's Tampa Bay region in 1997 resulted in $25 million spent on eradication, which is significantly less than the cost of potential establishment. It has been estimated that the cost of controlling established Medfly in the State of California alone could range between $493 million to $875 million, and imposition of trade embargo from Asian countries would result in additional revenue losses of $564 million and cost more than 14,000 jobs (Szyniszewska & Tatem, 2014). The eastern Mediterranean region also experienced substantial losses linked to fruit fly infestations estimated at US$ 192 M (Enkerlin & Mumford, 1997). These flies carry the potential of post-harvest diseases such as Alternaria, Penicillium and Botrytis on different products (Cayol et al., 1994). This pest is highly polyphagous, and more than 400 plant species have been reported as hosts for it (USDA, 2012). This pest attacks fruit trees, including apple, apricot, avocado, citrus, guava, nuts, litchi, grapes, mango, papaya, peach, pear, plum, quince, palm, pomegranates and other fruit trees (Pezhman et al., 2010a, b). In Iran, Mediterranean fruit fly was observed for the first time in 1975 on the peach fruit in the orchards and gardens surrounding Mashhad railway station and then in the orchards and gardens in and around the city of Yazd (Mirsardo et al., 2010). During the years 1975 to 1978, it was reported from around Tehran and the eastern part of Mazandaran province, Iran. Mazandaran province as the latest focus of pest infestation, was cleaned during the years 1980 to 1982 and from that date to 1991, there have been no reports of the presence of pests in these areas (Sabzevari & Jafari, 1991). Investigation of the geographical distribution of medfly in Mazandaran province in the years 2006-2008, showed that the fly infestation in 2006 was limited to the eastern cities of Mazandaran, which was reached the western regions in 2007 and only, Ramsar city was free of infestation (Mirsardo et al., 2010). In general, according to the results of Gholamian et al. (2013), it seems that the Mediterranean fruit fly can easily spread annually between 10 to 40 km depending on weather conditions, natural obstacles (forest and hills), and hosts on region and due to infestation of this pest in an area, it can be expected that the population of which will increase there in the following years. Also taking into account the pest population peak in the fall of each year, right control measures can be employed before reaching the pest to its maximum population (Gholamian et al., 2013). Trap catches are the best means for detection of medfly. Broad studies have been conducted by researchers from different countries on a variety of Mediterranean fruit fly traps and catches (Katsoyannos et al., 1999). Investigations conducted on a variety of catching traps for identifying and tracking the medfly in Egypt showed that the Nadel trap with Trimedlure had attracted the most flies. While McPhail traps with hydrolyzed protein had the highest catches of female flies, and also the McPhail trap with diammonium phosphate had the lowest of attraction the flies (Hashem et al., 1987). Unfortunately today, chemical pesticides are used for fight and control of pests. The most important dangers of pesticides can be considered as their negative impact on the environment and human health, wildlife, plants and beneficial organisms. One way to control this pest is to use sticky yellow cards (Pezhman et al., 2010a). Various factors such as shape, color, and location can affect the efficiency of traps (Hashem et al., 1987). Yellow is one of the most influential physical stimuli used in the manufacture of adhesive and McPhail traps, whether in mass trapping or in the monitoring program of pests (Hill & Hooper, 1984). Sticky trap consists of a yellow rectangular plastic sheet both sides of which is covered by a thin layer of a special glue (Tanglefoot). Due to two-dimensional design and high surface area, these traps are more efficient than Jackson traps and a variety of Mcphail traps in capturing fruit flies (Hill & Hooper, 1984). In Palestinian, circular trapping around the fruit orchards, was of successful outcomes in controlling the Mediterranean fruit fly (Cohen & Yuval, 2000). Tracking is an action used to understand the pest activity and make more informed decisions for its management. Care to determine the population dynamics is conducted using special attracting traps and the number of insects trapped by the traps is used to determine the existence and population dynamics of the pest in an area. The results of tracking can be used to determine the potential damage of the pest. In conjunction with the highly mobile insects such as fruit flies, using traps is very effective. Trapping and attractants in any orchard is a method with the least spending of time and effort to track fruit fly population. So as a replacement for chemical control methods and avoid damage to the environment, the present investigation was carried out to evaluate relative efficiency of various yellow color sticky traps at four heights in north, east, south and west directions against citrus fruit fly. This information will be useful in improving monitoring technique and mass trapping of this pest in citrus orchard and more helpful in enhancing integrated pest management programs by developing strong decision making component as sticky trap. 562 Acta agriculturae Slovenica, 109 - 3, december 2017 Effect of geographical directions, ... of Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann, 1824) in citrus orchards 2 MATERIALS AND METHODS The locations of the study were shown in figure 1. The age of the trees in the orchards was typically between 18 and 20 years and all the trees were mature and productive. Operations of fertilizing, irrigation, pruning and removing weeds took place regularly in these orchards. In 2016, no pesticide was used against pests at the orchards under study. The types of trees of these orchards were Thomson orange, blood orange and Valencia orange and their rootstock was orange. Figure 1: Area of study This research was conducted in a number of citrus orchards in Mazandaran province, within four months of the year 2016 (the months of August, September, October and November). Considering that the activity of this flies in citrus orchards of Mazandaran province during these four months is significant and can cause damage in citrus orchards, these months were carefully examined. To determine the best type of yellow color to trap these flies, four types of traps including lemon yellow sticky trap, amber yellow sticky trap, fluorescent yellow sticky trap, and yellow sticky trap, were used. Yellow sticky cards used in this study, were evaluated in the Nano Institute of Sharif University of Technology by fluorescence spectrometer in order to calculate the wavelength and the percentage of light reflected of each one. These cards included respectively, the fluorescent yellow (538 nm and 2.75 %), lemon yellow (574 nm and 2.48 %), yellow (602 nm and 2.12 %) and amber yellow (641 nm and 1.16 %). In addition to the above, to find out the best geographical direction for installing yellow cards, four geographical directions (North, South, East and West) were determined and the cards were installed. Finally, to find out the best height suitable for installation of yellow cards on trees, five different heights (1, 1.5, 2, 2.5 and 3 m above ground level) were determined using meter and cards were installed. This study was conducted as a factorial experiment on the basis of randomized completely blocks design in 320 treatments and 3 replications, which in total, a number of 320 trees were selected randomly and yellow sticky cards were installed due to the height, direction and type of special adhesive. The logarithms of the obtained data were analyzed on the basis of the factorial experiment 4*4*4*5 in a completely randomized design with three replications. In order to prevent the interaction of traps with each other, the distance between them was 25 m. The sticky traps lacked pheromones and on each tree, one trap was installed. Acta agriculturae Slovenica, 109 - 3, december 2017 Amir Hossein TOORANI and Habib ABBASIPOUR The yellow cards were of 20 cm length and 10 cm width and were tied up to the tree branches using plastic wires in order not to change their position by the wind. Since the quality and performance of the adhesive decrease with the passage of time by the sun and the rain, yellow cards of the experiment were replaced every 15 days. For counting the number of flies captured by yellow cards, a pocket binocular with a magnification of x60 was used and identification of male and female insects was carried out through their morphological characteristics and the data collected were recorded every 15 days. 2.1 Data analyses After completion of counting, the data were analyzed using the statistical package SPSS version 22. Means comparison was performed using Tukey's HSD test and the corresponding graphs were drawn in Excel. 3 RESULTS The results of ANOVA analysis of data obtained from except for replicate, there is a significant difference this study are presented in Table 1 and indicate that between other treatments in the 5 % level. Table 1: ANOVA Analysis of data from different treatments capturing the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata by different kinds of yellow cards Source of variations df F-value Sig. Corrected Model 322 120.919 0.01 Intercept 1 2.695E4 0.01 Month 3 1.633E3 0.01 Color 3 3.099E3 0.01 Height 4 1.228E3 0.01 Direction 3 1.374E3 0.01 Repetition 3 0.772 0.510 height x direction 12 72.318 0.01 month x height x direction 45 26.634 0.01 month x color x height x direction 135 17.922 0.01 month x color 9 514.198 0.01 month x height 12 93.087 0.01 color x height 12 181.291 0.01 color x direction 9 140.232 0.01 month x color x height 36 41.817 0.01 color x height x direction 36 14.650 0.01 Error 957 Total 1280 Corrected Total 1279 The results of mean comparison of flies captured in different months, colors, heights and directions showed that there are significant differences between all of them. So that, the highest number of flies were captured in October, and the lowest one in August (13.94 ± 0.23 and 4.22 ± 0.21 per trap, respectively). According to the 564 Acta agriculturae Slovenica, 109 - 3, december 2017 results of captured flies in males and females which were analyzed separately, compared with each other, the largest number was of male flies in October (7.14 ± 0.10) and the lowest flies captured of female ones in August (2.22 ± 0.12), respectively. The mean Comparison of number of captured flies by different Effect of geographical directions, ... of Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann, 1824) in citrus orchards colors showed that the fluorescent yellow color had the highest number of capture (14.47 ± 0.31) and amber yellow had the lowest catches (1.96 ± 0.19), respectively. Also, comparing the number of male and female captured by different colors showed that the highest number of male captured by fluorescent yellow (7.57 ± 0.18) and the lowest number of male captured by Amber yellow (1.02 ± 0.09), respectively. In comparing the number of captured flies in different heights, the results of Table 2 showed that the height of 1.5 m had a slight difference with 2 m and had the maximum number of capture (12.72 ± 0.52). While at the height of 3 m, the minimum number of flies (3.75 ± 0.31) was captured. Despite the fact that there is a significant difference in the number of flies captured in all different heights, but the results of means comparison for males and females which was carried out separately, indicates that the 1.5 and 2 m heights, with the highest number in the capture of males and females, were not significantly different from each other, but this was different for other heights. In addition to above explanations, the results of means comparison of the number of flies per bait in different directions, showed that the South and East recorded the highest number of captured flies, which were 12.17 ± 0.44 and 10.92 ± 0.51, respectively. In conjunction with the results of comparing the average number of flies captured in males and females, which were carried out separately, it was found that males had the most captures in the South (6.27 ± 0.23), while the lowest number of males captured (2.22 ± 0.16) was in the West. Table 2: Results of number of capturing (mean±SE) the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata by different kinds of yellow cards in different treatments Source of variation Treatment Male Female Total August 2.22 ± 0.12d* 2.00 ± 0.08d 4.22 ± 0.21d Month September October 4.31 ± 0.08b 7.14 ± 0.10a 4.13 ± 0.19b 6.80 ± 0.12a 8.44 ± 0.25b 13.94 ± 0.23a November 3.57 ± 0.15c 3.22 ± 0.15c 6.79 ± 0.29c Fluorescent Yellow 7.57 ± 0.18a 6.89 ± 0.11a 14.47 ± 0.31a Color Lemon Yellow 5.80 ± 0.07b 5.67 ± 0.13b 11.48 ± 0.22b Amber Yellow 1.02 ± 0.09d 0.94 ± 0.09d 1.96 ± 0.19d Yellow 2.83 ± 0.08c 2.65 ± 0.13c 5.49 ± 0.21c 1 3.12 ± 0.17c 2.80 ± 0.11c 5.93 ± 0.29d 1.5 6.54 ± 0.21a 6.18 ± 0.30a 12.72 ± 0.52a Height 2 6.27 ± 0.23a 6.05 ± 0.17a 12.31 ± 0.38b 2.5 3.66 ± 0.14b 3.37 ± 0.19b 7.03 ± 0.36c 3 1.96 ± 0.08d 1.80 ± 0.21d 3.75 ± 0.31e North 3.06 ± 0.07c 2.81 ± 0.13c 5.87 ± 0.20c Direction South 6.27 ± 0.23a 5.90 ± 0.20a 12.17 ± 0.44a East 5.69 ± 0.31b 5.22 ± 0.17b 10.92 ± 0.51b West 2.22 ± 0.12d 2.22 ± 0.16d 4.44 ± 0.29d * Similar letter in each column show no significant difference. According to the correlation observed between months under study with heights, card colors and directions, independent separation of data was carried out between different months (Table 3). ANOVA results showed that there is a significant difference between all variables and total number of males and females. But by sex separation, no significant relationship was found between the color and direction in males in November. In addition, in both males and females in August and November, no significant relationship was between height and direction. Among the other treatments in males and females, like their sum, there was no significant difference and relationship. Mean comparison results of capture in different directions, on yearly basis, given in Table 4, show that in total captures in all months, the South and then the East, had the highest rate of capture. Whereas, the North and then the West, had the lowest captures. Also the lowest capture rate for the total population, was in the West (1.84 ± 0.35) during August and the highest one was for the month of October in the South (19.85 ± 1.93). In comparing males and females population in different directions, results showed that male insects were dominant in the south in October (10.19 ± 0.92). The comparison of males, females and total number of flies captured, separately in different months in Table 5 showed that in August, September and October months, the highest number of male and female captured by fluorescent yellow. But in November, the lemon yellow color has captured the highest number. The lowest Acta agriculturae Slovenica, 109 - 3, december 2017 Amir Hossein TOORANI and Habib ABBASIPOUR capture rate was for the female in August and in the amber yellow color (0.51 ± 0.07), and the highest rate of capture belonged to the male in October and in chartreus yellow color (14.91 ± 1.12). The results comparison of different months, by height (Table 6) showed that in all months, height of 1.5 m had the highest number of capture, except for September, in which the number of females captured in the height of 2 m was more than the 1.5 m height, while the differences were not significant. The lowest number of insects captured between male and female flies was for female insects in September and in height of 3 m (0.66 ± 0.13) and the highest number of females was captured in November at the height of 1.5 m (10.81 ± 1.37). 566 Acta agriculturae Slovenica, 109 - 3, december 2017 Effect of geographical directions, ... of Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann, 1824) in citrus orchards Table 3: Results of simple analysis of variance of data of male and female of the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata per month, separately Source MS of August MS of September MS of October MS of November of variation df Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total C 3 * 162.261 * 189.720 * 702.442 * 493.511 * 410.803 * 1799.621 * 3102.058 * 2742.908 * 11652.375 * 337.520 * 269.961 * 1211.025 H 4 58.894* 72.964* 262.403* 497.636* 410.708* 1812.044* 586.277* 624.558* 2418.180* 115.456* 134.870* 497.528* D 3 114.861* 144.353* 516.083* 455.403* 378.028* 1658.512* 786.300* 699.808* 2969.392* 88.570* 62.661* 295.917* R 3 3.403 1.336 1.233 5.970 2.128 2.954 8.208 11.892 12.058 2.361 5.945 1.267 CxH 12 18.121* 17.462* 68.489* 65.248* 46.389* 217.444* 156.212* 176.968* 658.440* 23.379* 15.068* 70.999* CxD 9 10.520* 19.786* 57.525* 35.842* 24.531* 116.943* 207.653* 127.450* 648.106* 15.945* 7.336 42.436* HxD 12 5.377 11.856* 27.557* 41.390* 43.656* 157.731* 34.422* 40.879* 143.686* 6.450 6.049 18.026* CxHxD 36 4.310* 4.959* 14.343* 10.350* 9.995* 31.745* 26.383* 24.822* 76.716* 12.967* 14.006* 47.955* E 237 1.806 1.674 1.318 2.812 3.259 2.414 6.493* 7.048 470 2.545 3.090 3.976 Significant at %5; C = Color; H = Height; D = Direction; R = Replicate; E = Error; MS = Mean Square Table 4: Mean results of capturing of the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata by sex in different months and different directions using yellow cards Direction MS of August MS of September MS of October MS of November Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total 2.69±0.28c 2.62±0.18c 5.31±0.38c 5.31±0.32c 5.00±0.25b 10.31±0.56c 2.99±0.16b 2.54±0.11c 5.52±0.28c 6.54±0.17a 6.42±0.32a 12.96±0.50a 10.19±0.92a 9.66±1.02a 19.85±1.93a 4.61±0.33a 4.26±0.28a 8.87±0.60a North 1.24±0.07c 1.07±0.09c 2.31±0.18c South 3.72±0.18a 3.26±0.12a 6.99±0.31a East 2.97±0.21b 2.79±0.26b 5.76±0.46b 6.16±0.23a 5.52±0.12b 11.69±0.34b 9.36±0.79b 8.94±0.98a 18.30±1.76b 4.27±0.42a 3.65±0.20b 7.92±0.60b West 0.95±0.19c 0.89±0.17c 1.84±0.35d 1.85±0.19d 1.96±0.05d 3.81±0.25d 3.69±0.19d 3.60±0.23c 7.29±0.41d 2.39±0.13c 2.44±0.12c 4.82±0.24d Similar letter in each column show no significant difference. Acta agriculturae Slovenica, 109 - 3, december 2017 567 Amir Hossein TOORANI and Habib ABBASIPOUR Table 5: Mean results of capturing of the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata by sex in different months and in four kinds of yellow cards Color MS of August MS of September MS of October MS of November Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Fluorescent Y 4.10±0.27a 3.67±0.19a 7.77±0.48a 6.57±0.62a 6.01±0.79a 12.59±1.41a 14.91±1.12a 13.64±0.88a 28.55±2.01a 4.71±0.41a 4.24±0.33ab 8.95±0.76a Lemon Y 2.80±0.14b 2.64±0.22b 5.44±0.34b 6.22±0.39a 5.97±0.40a 12.20±0.77a 9.35±1.21b 9.67±1.11b 19.02±2.35b 4.84±0.38a 4.41±0.29a 9.25±0.67a Amber Y 0.65±0.05d 0.51±0.07d 1.16±0.13d 1.52±0.19c 1.39±0.09c 2.91±0.31c 1.40±0.16d 1.36±0.18d 2.76±0.32d 0.51±0.07c 0.50±0.09c 1.01±0.18c Y 1.33±0.10c 1.19±0.19c 2.52±0.28c 2.91±0.41b 3.16±0.21b 6.07±0.23b 2.89±0.20c 2.52±0.34c 5.41±0.53c 4.20±0.73b 3.74±0.22b 7.94±0.96b Similar letter in each column show no significant difference. Y: Yellow Table 6: Mean results of capturing of the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata by sex in different months and different heights using yellow cards Height (meter) MS of August MS of September MS of October MS of November Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total 1 3.12±0.28c 2.80±0.34c 5.93±0.61d 1.48±0.12c 1.41±0.35c 2.89±0.46c 2.39±0.19c 2.28±0.57c 4.68±0.78d 5.50±0.81c 6.19±1.03c 11.69±1.86c 1.5 6.54±0.70a 6.18±0.62a 12.72±1.133a 3.22±0.45a 2.78±0.29a 6.04±0.72a 7.52±1.13a 7.10±1.22a 14.62±2.35a 10.52±1.16a 10.81±1.37a 21.33±2.54a 2 6.27±0.71a 6.05±0.88a 12.31±1.61b 3.12±0.19a 2.92±0.21a 6.00±0.38a 7.06±0.92a 6.58±0.64a 13.64±1.58b 9.50±1.01b 9.62±1.20b 19.12±2.19b 2.5 3.66±0.09b 3.37±0.41b 7.03±0.51c 2.52±0.19b 2.25±0.41b 4.77±0.62b 3.12±0.19b 3.08±0.40b 6.20±0.61c 5.50±0.55c 5.64±0.62c 11.14±1.17c 3 1.96±0.18d 1.80±0.13d 3.75±0.33e 0.77±0.03d 0.66±0.13d 1.43±0.15d 1.46±0.78d 1.62±0.53d 3.08±1.33e 2.98±0.56d 3.42±0.72d 6.41±1.30d Similar letter in each column show no significant difference. 568 Acta agriculturae Slovenica, 109 - 3, december 2017 Effect of geographical directions, ... of Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann, 1824) in citrus orchards 3.1 Effect of correlation between the different colors and directions Due to the correlation between the color of the cards and directions, independent separation of data was performed between the different colors (Figure 2). According to the figure, the minimum and maximum amount of the whole individuals captured was obtained in amber yellow treatments and the West direction (0.78 ± 0.17), and chartreus yellow and south (21.19 ± 0.87), respectively. 3.2 Effect of correlation between the different colors and heights According to the correlation between color and height results, independent separation of data was performed between the different colors (Figure 3). Based on the results in all the colors, the number of male, female and total captures in the height of 1.5 m was more than any other height, except for the male treatment of fluorescent yellow and male, female and total individuals in yellow treatments. The least amount of capture was observed in females in the treatment of amber yellow and the height of 3 m (0.64 ± 0.10), and the highest number of captures in males in the treatment of fluorescent yellow and the height of 2 m (11.34 ± 2.16), respectively. 25 © OJ -H 20 I 15 is 10 s U fluorescent yellow ■o j Male □ Female □ Total a n * m I ü North South East West lemon yellow in I Male □ Female □ Total 0) II North South East West 5 0 Figure 2: Capturing number of the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata by sex in different directions and different kinds of yellow cards. The dissimilar letters on each column indicate significant differences Acta agriculturae Slovenica, 109 - 3, december 2017 569 Amir Hossein TOORANI and Habib ABBASIPOUR 30 25 OJ H 20 ( 15 f 10 1 u 5 0 fluorescent yellow o 11 I Male □ Female □ Total .o Ji 25 20 15 10 Jl 0 lemon yellow 11 I Male □ Female □ Total a