The common fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), more correctly called the vinegar fly, is a frequent visitor to ripe fruit in households around the world, where it often deposits eggs on rotting flesh ...

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.

Considered among the pests with the greatest economic impact, the tephritid fruit flies are a serious worldwide problem. Destroying fruit and vegetable production, they have raised international ...

The patterned wings of tephritid fruit flies often are moved in complex manners during sexual encounters. However, there are few cases of sexual dimorphism, and wing movements also may occur in ...

Tephritid fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) are among the world’s worst pests of agriculture, being of major economic importance in nearly all tropical, subtropical and temperate countries.

It’s an annoying battle when fruit flies suddenly invade your kitchen. Where do they come from and how can you get rid of them?

The Tephritid Workers Database (www.tephritid.org); In: Proceedings of the 5th Meeting of the Working Group on Fruit Flies of the Western Hemisphere, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, May 16-21, 2004.

Fruit fly control in Uruguay is based mainly on toxic baits which are insufficient to reduce the damage caused by these pests. Therefore, alternative management measures such as mass trapping gain ...