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Therefore, to manage apple maggot infestation, farmers may destroy infested apples, hawthorn, and abandoned apple trees. Apple maggots may be killed by placing infested fruit in cold storage of 32 degrees Fahrenheit for forty days. Some biological control agents have not been found to be effective because apple maggots are hidden within the ...
Attract-and-kill style traps are being tested for potential use as a control method for R. mendax, having been successfully used to control the apple maggot (R. pomonella). [9] Traps composed of biodegradable and regular plastic, or matted paper are baited with an ammonia-based kairomone lure, an attractive color, or both, and treated with an ...
Cochliomyia hominivorax, the New World screwworm fly, or simply screwworm or screw-worm, is a species of parasitic fly that is well known for the way in which its larvae (maggots) eat the living tissue of warm-blooded animals. It is present in the New World tropics.
Rhagoletis mendax Curran, 1932 – blueberry maggot; Rhagoletis metallica (Schiner, 1868) Rhagoletis mongolica Kandybina, 1972; Rhagoletis nicaraguensis Hernández-Ortiz, 1999; Rhagoletis nova (Schiner, 1868) Rhagoletis ochraspis (Wiedemann, 1830) Rhagoletis osmanthi Bush, 1966; Rhagoletis penela Foote, 1981; Rhagoletis persimilis Bush, 1966
Pheromone traps are very sensitive, meaning they attract insects present at very low densities. They are often used to detect presence of exotic pests, or for sampling, monitoring, or to determine the first appearance of a pest in an area.
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The Apple Maggot Quarantine Area was established to control the spread of the apple maggot (pictured) into a protected agricultural area of eastern Washington. The apple maggot, which is not indigenous to the Pacific Northwest , was discovered to have arrived in Washington in 1980. [ 1 ]
Growers are always careful to keep fruits and veggies as safe as possible but occasionally, and very rarely, a potential human pathogen like E. coli or salmonella could enter,” he says.