• Mexican fruit fly in San Diego County, starting in 2022. A combination of methods were attributed to the eradication. In private residences, the USDA or the California Department of ...

Oriental fruit fly, melon fly, and Mexican fruit fly. These species are considered some of the “most damaging agriculture pests in the world,” officials said. A caper fruit fly was last ...

Jan. 17 (UPI) --The Department of Agriculture said Friday it has tapped $129 million in emergency funding to battle a worsening incursion of exotic, invasive fruit flies from Mexico and Guatemala.

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 81, No. 4 (Dec., 1998), pp. 497-508 (12 pages) Filtrates of 11 bacteria representing 4 higher taxonomic categories were attractive to Mexican fruit flies, Anastrepha ...

Anastrepha fruit flies are the main fruit fly pests throughout the Western Hemisphere. The SIT has been applied to exclude the Mexican fruit fly (A. ludens) from California and Texas, to suppress the ...

Chemicals were tested at 2 concentrations, 1 μg and 100 ng, for attractiveness to Mexican fruit flies (Anastrepha ludens) in laboratory cage-top bioassays. All test chemicals except sorbic acid were ...

Applying biological control and SIT on the ground The combined use of parasitoids and the SIT has been applied in several states in Mexico, to control populations of the Mexican fruit fly and the West ...