Article 1, Table 1, Fruit Notes 63(4)

Table 1. Control of apple maggot flies by odor-baited sticky-coated wooden spheres, wooden pesticide-treated spheres (PTS), biodegradable pesticide-treated spheres, or three applications of azinphosmethyl in 32 blocks of medium-size apple trees in eight commercial orchards in 1998.

Mean no. flies captured per block

Treatment
Perimeter traps Interior monitoring traps Mean % injured fruit per block*

Sticky spheres
1702.5 137.3 0.70

Wooden PTS
-- 210.8 2.93

Biodegradable PTS
-- 272.4 0.77

Insecticide sprays (3)
-- 123.6 0.59

* Values here represent injury during five sampling periods (every 2 weeks from mid-July through harvest), during which 100 fruit per block were sampled on each sampling date.

Table 1. Control of apple maggot flies by odor-baited sticky-coated wooden spheres, wooden pesticide-treated spheres (PTS), biodegradable pesticide-treated spheres, or three applications of azinphosmethyl in 32 blocks of medium-size apple trees in eight commercial orchards in 1998.
	Mean no. flies captured per block
Treatment	Perimeter traps	Interior monitoring traps	Mean % injured fruit per block*
Sticky spheres	1702.5	137.3	0.70
Wooden PTS	--	210.8	2.93
Biodegradable PTS	--	272.4	0.77
Insecticide sprays (3)	--	123.6	0.59
* Values here represent injury during five sampling periods (every 2 weeks from mid-July through harvest), during which 100 fruit per block were sampled on each sampling date.