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2. Anastrepha ludens - Wikipedia

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   Larvae eat and burrow into the fruit that their mother laid them on. While grapefruits and oranges are preferred, other citrus fruits, pears, apples, and peach are also common hosts and thus food sources. [4] Like other fruit flies, A. ludens need to consume a mixture of amino acids, minerals, carbohydrates, water, and vitamins in order to ...

3. Tephritidae - Wikipedia

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   Some fruit flies show Batesian mimicry, bearing the colors and markings of dangerous arthropods such as wasps or jumping spiders because it helps the fruit flies avoid predation, though the flies lack stingers. Adult tephritid fruit flies are often found on the host plant and feeding on pollen, nectar, rotting plant debris, or honeydew.

4. Two million fruit flies being dumped over LA to fight ... - AOL

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   Around 2.25 million sterile male fruit flies will be dropped over the Leimert Park neighbourhood of the city after the California Department of Food and Agriculture detected two wild Mediterranean ...

5. Anastrepha suspensa - Wikipedia

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   Anastrepha suspensa, known as the Caribbean fruit fly, the Greater Antillean fruit fly, guava fruit fly, or the Caribfly, is a species of tephritid fruit fly. [1] As the names suggest, these flies feed on and develop in a variety of fruits , primarily in the Caribbean.

6. USDA declares California free of invasive fruit flies after ...

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   The USDA described last year's outbreak as "unprecedented," and called it the worst infestation of invasive fruit flies that California had seen in at least a century.

7. Bactrocera tryoni - Wikipedia

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   Bactrocera tryoni, the Queensland fruit fly, is a species of fly in the family Tephritidae in the insect order Diptera. B. tryoni is native to subtropical coastal Queensland and northern New South Wales. [1] They are active during the day, but mate at night. B. tryoni lay their eggs in fruit.

8. Fruit flies are invading SC homes. Here are 16 ways to get ...

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   “The reproductive potential of fruit flies is enormous; given the opportunity, they will lay about 500 eggs. The entire life cycle from egg to adult can be completed in about a week,” he wrote.

9. Bactrocera dorsalis - Wikipedia

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   B. dorsalis thorax and abdomen. B. dorsalis is a species of tephritid fruit fly. Flies that belong to this family are usually small to medium-sized with colorful markings. In particular, B. dorsalis belongs to a complex of physically similar flies called the Bactrocera dorsalis complex, whose defining characteristics include a mostly black thorax and dark T-shaped marking on the fly's ...