An incursion of non-native tephritid fruit fly species such as the Mediterranean fruit fly and Mexican fruit fly is intensifying and requires emergency funding, U.S. agriculture officials said Friday.

Credit: CRP cryptic fruit fly pest species. Considered among the agricultural pests with the greatest economic impact, the tephritid fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) are a serious worldwide problem.

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. By laying ...

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 ...

Charles Stuhl, John Sivinski, Peter Teal, Martín Aluja, RESPONSES OF MULTIPLE SPECIES OF TEPHRITID (DIPTERA) FRUIT FLY PARASITOIDS (HYMENOPTERA: BRACONIDAE: OPIINAE) TO SYMPATRIC AND EXOTIC FRUIT ...

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. USDA and ...

Fruit flies' rate of production is a key factor in what makes them so annoying to homeowners. “Fruit fly females lay eggs in fermenting organic matter (and the) development time is speedy ...

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 ...