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Mediterranean fruit fly: see fruit fly fruit fly, common name for any of the flies of the families Tephritidae and Drosophilidae. All fruit flies are very small insects that lay their eggs in various plant tissues. ..... Click the link for more information. . Mediterranean fruit flyor Med flyFruit fly (Ceratitis capitata) proven to be particularly destructive to citrus crops, at great economic cost. The Med fly lays up to 500 eggs in citrus fruits (except lemons and sour limes), and the larvae tunnel into the fruit, making it unfit for human consumption. Because of this pest, quarantine laws regulating fruit importation have been enacted worldwide. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Chief deputy since 1999, Robert Atkins was the first agricultural official to detect a Mediterranean fruit fly, or Medfly, in California - at Venice in 1975 - and subsequently managed the fruit-fly detection and pest-prevention programs from 1981 through 1992. First, the researchers isolated genes analogous to Or83b from three other species: the medfly (Ceratitis capitata), a mosquito (Anopheles gambiae), and a moth (Helicoverpa zea). Compositional interpretations of medfly mortality [Letter]. |
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