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 3 Effect of nematode species and concentrations on mortality rate of Medfly’s adults

Nematode species	Concentrations (IJs/adult)
Nematode species	Control	50IJ/C. capitata	100IJ/C. capitata	200IJ/C. capitata
Heterorhabditis bacteriophora (11 KG)	6.00^f	75.56^d	89.00^b	92.00^ab
H. bacteriophora (TOK-20)	7.00^f	84.00^bd	86.00^bc	91.00^ab
Steinernema carpocapsae (Tokat-Bakışlı05)	10.00^f	78.89^cd	61.05^e	87.37^bc
S. feltiae (Tokat-Emir)	9.00^f	83.00^bd	89.47^b	100^a

CV 0.23, LSD: 9.42
Means followed by the same letter are not statistically different according to the Duncan test (P ≤ 0.05)