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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 ]
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 ...
Diachasmimorpha mellea (formerly known as Biosteres melleus) is a species of braconid parasitoid wasp which attacks multiple species of Rhagoletis fruit flies, including R. pomonella, the apple maggot fly. This wasp has been found throughout much of the United States and in Central Mexico.
The screw-worm fly was the first pest successfully eliminated from an area through the sterile insect technique, by the use of an integrated area-wide approach.. The sterile insect technique (SIT) [1] [2] is a method of biological insect control, whereby overwhelming numbers of sterile insects are released into the wild.
Rhagoletis mendax life cycle. The life cycle of this species is holometabolous, and has four stages of development: egg, larva, pupa and adult.Adults typically have a lifespan of 30–45 days or longer, with females being capable of reproduction starting at 15 days and going to approximately 45 days (weather dependent).
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.
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
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