Attractiveness and performance of different traps used for capturing Apoïdea in Kisangani, DR Congo
Authors
Jean Paul Denis KASOMBOYI MWAMBA, Boniface Ndoola POSHO, Ferdinand Bishosha KOMBELE, Rudolph Rex-Bolimbo ALENDITIMA, Dieu-Donné Agenonga UPOKI, Nicolas VEREECKENAbstract
The study aimed to evaluate used traps performance on attractiveness and captured Apoïdea in some pepper cropping systems in studied area. Some traps were established (sweep net, triplet of yellow, white and blue cups) in Kisangani and surrounding. Three treatments were used per site: T0: 0.5 ha of area not yet cultivated (control), T1: 0.5 ha of pepper, T2: 0.5 ha of mixing pepper-maize-cassava. Observed results showed that in Kisangani and its surrounding area, the yellow cups were the most attracted traps compared to white and blue cups in term of number of individual trapped.
Keys words: Attractiveness, performance, traps, Apoïdea
