An international research team led by Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU) and the Joint FAO/IAEA Center of Nuclear ...

A widely-used agricultural chemical sprayed on fruits and vegetables to prevent fungal disease is also killing beneficial insects that play a critical role in pollination and wider ecosystems.

Oviposition preference hierarchy in Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae)—Influence of female age and experience. Iheringia Série Zoológica 91: 93-100. Lopes EB, Brito CHD, Batista JDL, ...

The results of previous studies that showed that exposing mass-reared male Mediterranean fruit flies Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) to ginger root oil ("aromatherapy") increases the likelihood of ...

Called Mediterranean fruit flies (Ceratitis capitata), or medflies for short, they are an invasive species that can infest more than 250 types of fruits and vegetables.

An international research team led by Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU) and the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and ...

The Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata) ("medfly"), attacks over 250 species of fruits and vegetables. Females puncture fruit when they lay eggs and hatched larvae destroy the fruit.