Fruit flies severely impact mango yield and quality, but organic methods offer sustainable control. Effective practices ...

The oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel) (Diptera: Tephritidae), is one of the most important economic pests in tropical and subtropical areas of the world, where it causes serious damage ...

These four species have now been combined under the single name: Bactrocera dorsalis, the Oriental fruit fly. The closely-related Carambola fruit fly remains distinct.

Yi-Fei Xie, Wen-Jia Yang, Wei Dou, Jin-Jun Wang, CHARACTERIZATION OF THE CDNA ENCODING MEMBRANE-BOUND TREHALASE, ITS EXPRESSION AND ENZYME ACTIVITY IN BACTROCERA DORSALIS (DIPTERA: TEPHRITIDAE), The ...

For example, over the years, taxonomists identified and named several closely related species of Bactrocera dorsalis, to a point where it became the “dorsalis complex”. The Bactrocera species are ...

The Department of Agriculture has rejected reports claiming that the presence of the Oriental fruit fly (Bactrocera dorsalis) has been detected in Grabouw, Western Cape, labelling the reports ‘false ...

Research have demonstrated that the Oriental fruit fly, the Philippine fruit fly, the Invasive fruit fly, the Asian Papaya fruit fly are all the same biological species and have now been combined ...