Life cycle of a fruit fly A female fruit fly can live for up to six months. During this period, it lays 500 to 800 eggs inside the fruit, making it hard to eliminate the insect with pesticides.

The mango fruit fly is believed to be the single largest crop damager in India. It accounts for about 27 per cent of harvesting loss. The flies attack semi ripe and mature fruits during the months ...

Mango production in Mangaldan, Pangasinan is expected to be lower this December 2023 after roughly 50 percent of the town’s total mango plantations suffered from fruit fly infestation. Mango growers ...

Scientists issue alert over fruit fly infestation in mango ‘Yield will be affected if proper measures are not taken’ Updated - May 11, 2021 11:25 pm IST - VIJAYAWADA .

A section of innovative mango farmers in the country are using low-cost plastic bottles as traps to fight the notorious fruit flies responsible for over 60 per cent of fruit losses.

In the Central Valley of Togo, a mango grower named Yacuobuo started killing his trees due to fruit-fly infestation that has decimated his crop over the past three years. In this main mango-growing ...

The launch of Biofeed’s first-in-class attractant for female Oriental fruit flies results from 15 years of development of the core platform and more than a year of development and testing in Israel ...