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Rhagoletis mendax is a species of tephritid fruit fly known by the common name blueberry maggot. The blueberry maggot is closely related to the apple maggot ( R. pomonella ), a larger fruit fly in the same genus.
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 ...
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
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.
Bush is best known for his research on the process of speciation, [2] especially for his evidence of sympatric speciation in the apple maggot fruit fly, Rhagoletis pomonella, which shifted from using its native host, hawthorn tree, to using the domesticated apple tree in the last 150-200 years.
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Apple Maggot Quarantine Area is virtually all arable areas of the United States outside of Eastern Washington (green), the state's major apple production zone. Botrytis cinerea is a major apple disease in Washington. [14] SDHIs are commonly used, especially boscalid, which has produced a resistance problem. [14]
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