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fruit fly

1. any small dipterous fly of the family Trypetidae, which feed on and lay their eggs in plant tissues
2. any dipterous fly of the genus Drosophila
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fruit fly

[′früt ‚flī]
(invertebrate zoology)
The common name for those acalypterate insects composing the family Tephritidae.
Any insect whose larvae feed on fruit or decaying vegetable matter.
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'The fruit fly is not our main concern when it comes to being blocked from the international market,' he said, adding that most mango shipments that had been prepared to leave Cambodia had met the SPS requirements.
He said fruit fly was a very damaging insect for fruit trees which can decrease production of mango, orange and guava up to 30 per cent.
Two species of fruit flies established in different regions of Pakistan include, peach fruit fly, Bactrocera zonata and cucurbit fruit fly Bactrocera cucurbitae (Coquillett).
The presence of fruit fly can also result in loss of valuable interstate and export markets.
1: Fruit infestation (%) marketable fruits/plant yield losses/plant (g) and marketable yield/plant (g) demonstrated by melon fruit fly in bitter gourd crop sown at different plant-to-plant distances (Means of bars sharing similar letters are not significantly different at p = 0.05; Error bars indicate the SE)
To film fruit fly flight required years of refining a 3-D video monitoring setup.
The Oriental fruit fly (Bactrocera dorsalis) is a pest well known in the United States and is causing severe damage to French Polynesian agriculture, a major industry with exports of several tropical fruits and vegetables.
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