Abstract
ABSTRACT
 In recent years, fruit flies (Diptera: Drosophilidae and Tephritidae) have become an increasingly severe problem in fruit production in Turkey. Ceratitis capitata Wied., Rhagoletis cerasi L. (Diptera: Tephritidae), Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura) and Zaprionus indianus (Gupta) (Diptera: Drosophilidae) are the leading pests that cause worms in fruits. Using adult trapping, we studied the population dynamics of this four pests at different altitudes fruit orchards of Adana, during 2019 and 2020. R. cerasi adults emerged after the second week of May, and the last adult emergence was seen with the completion of the harvest. Adult population density was found at low levels. D. suzukii adults appeared at 113m (Balcalı) in April, and their emergence times were observed to be a little later as the altitude increased, and it was determined that they continued their existence in nature until the end of December. It has the highest populations in late June - mid-July and late October - November. The time of occurrence of C. capitata and Z. indianus adults in nature in both years was after cherry fruits were harvested. It has been observed that in different orchards, they appear in direct proportion as the altitude increases (from 113 m to 1510 m), the earliest in a low altitude place and the longer their duration in nature.
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