Tephritid fruit flies cause major losses in fruit and vegetables, and are often the target of intensive insecticide applications to protect commercial production. In addition, few pests have a greater ...

Many of the protocols developed or improved during the CRP will be incorporated into the international quality control manual for sterile tephritid fruit flies, standardizing key components of the ...

Those involved with feeding, host location, mating, and oviposition have been used in control. Feeding--recent work suggests that tropical adult fruit flies feed for the most part on leaf surface ...

Also called tephritid flies, these attack fruit well before it rots. Millions of dollars have been spent (ultimately ...