04 Haz 2025 Çarşamba
Determination of the effects of atmospheric and climatic variables on adult populations of European Cherry Fruit Fly Rhagoletis cerasi L. (Diptera: Tephritidae) with Linear Regression Model
Abstract : The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of atmospheric and climatic variables on adult populations of European cherry fruit fly Rhagoletis cerasi L. (Diptera: Tephritidae). In this context, the effects of various independent variables (mean temperature, humidity, precipitation, wind speed and pressure) on the abundance and distribution of adult individuals in the original data collected for the first time by the project team were analyzed by applying linear regression analysis. As a result of these analyses, the number of adults caught in traps decreased with increasing temperature. This suggests that different species have different temperature tolerances or temperature-related biological processes. Humidity was positively correlated with cherry fly populations caught in traps. Although it was observed that cherry fly populations generally increased as humidity increased, the effect was not as pronounced as that of temperature. An increase in pressure caused a small decrease in the number of trap adults, while precipitation, wind speed and angle were not directly related to temperature and humidity.