Virulence of four entomopathogenic nematode against different stages of the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata Wiedemann (Diptera: Tephritidae)

Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control

Table 1 Effect of nematode species and concentrations on mortality rate of Mediterranean fruit fly larvae

Nematode species	Concentrations (IJs/larvae)
Nematode species	Control	50IJ/C. capitata	100IJ/C. capitata	200IJ/C. capitata
Heterorhabditis bacteriophora (11 KG)	12.00^d	87.00^ab	88.00^ab	94.00^a
H. bacteriophora (TOK-20)	9.00^d	84.00^b	87.00^ab	91.00^ab
Steinernema carpocapsae (Tokat-Bakışlı05)	12.00^d	64.00^c	85.88^ab	85.00^ab
S. feltiae (Tokat-Emir)	10.00^d	66.00^c	71.00^c	71.00^c

CV: 0.23, LSD: 9.10
Means followed by the same letter are not statistically different according to the Duncan test (P ≤ 0.05)