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Diversity, richness, and species composition of fruit flies with new and first records from Meghalaya, India [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Fruit flies are cosmopolitan insects affecting almost all the fruit growing regions of the world. This insect is of significant economic importance as they can cause serious damage to fruit, sometimes resulting in almost total crop failure.
Kennedy Ningthoujam, K. J. David, Sunita Chetry, Hissay Cheday Bhutia, Bihari Mohapatra Niladri, Kisan Rymbai, Jyotim Gogoi, Deepika Sorahia, Chada Anu Reddy, Pradeep Kumar Chandra, Mareena Sorokhaibam, Khaba Moirangthem, Mahesh Pathak, Uma Ngangom, Lourembam Sanajaoba, K. M. Ajaykumara, Bimal Kumar Sahoo, Yanglem Herojit Singh   +17 more
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Long-term monitoring reveals climate-driven seasonal dynamics of Zeugodacus cucurbitae (Coquillett) in Tanzania and prospects for pest control [PDF]

BMC Ecology and Evolution
Zeugodacus cucurbitae (Coquillett) is a major and economically important pest of cucurbit crops, causing substantial losses to farmers across the tropics and subtropics.
Maulid W. Mwatawala, Marc De Meyer, Jackline Bakengesa, Mwajuma K. Zinga, Joseph O. Ruboha   +4 more
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Population dynamics of fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) in a semirural area under subtropical monsoon climate of Bangladesh [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Fruit flies belonging to Tephritidae family are highly destructive agricultural pests, posing a significant threat to various fruits and vegetables grown in Bangladesh.
Mahfuza Momen, Md. Aftab Hossain, Kajla Seheli, Md. Forhad Hossain, Md. Abdul Bari   +4 more
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EFFICACY OF DIFFERENT HOMEMADE AND COMMERCIAL BAITS IN MONITORING OF FRUIT FLIES AT MARANTHANA, PYUTHAN, NEPAL [PDF]

Malaysian Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 2022
Fruits & vegetable commodities incur huge loss in field & postharvest conditions due to infestation by Tephritid Fruit Flies. The adult female flies lay eggs inside near maturity fruits & vegetables.
Akash Gupta, Rajendra Regmi
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Novel lures and COI sequences reveal cryptic new species of Bactrocera fruit flies in the Solomon Islands (Diptera, Tephritidae, Dacini) [PDF]

ZooKeys, 2021
Results from a snap-shot survey of Dacine fruit flies carried out on three of the Solomon Islands in April 2018 are reported. Using traps baited with the male lures cue-lure, methyl eugenol, and zingerone, 30 of the 48 species previously known to occur ...
Luc Leblanc, Francis Tsatsia, Camiel Doorenweerd   +2 more
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Monitoring of fruit fly in mandarin orchards of Jajarkot, Nepal: A mixed-method approach

Fundamental and Applied Agriculture, 2023
The study was conducted to access the species diversity of fruit fly and their population dynamics, awareness among mandarin growers on the nature of damage, and factors affecting the awareness in the Jajarkot district of Nepal in 2021.
Arpan Parajuli, Ram Hari Timilsina, Bibechana Paudel, Nabina Karki, Krishna Prasad Upadhya, Pitamber Basnet, Debraj Adhikari   +6 more
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Developing Lines of Queensland Fruit Flies with Different Levels of Response to a Kairomone Lure

Insects, 2022
The Queensland fruit fly (Q-fly), Bactrocera tryoni (Froggatt) is a serious horticultural pest in Australia because it is highly invasive and destructive.
Maryam Yazdani
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Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assays for detection of the New Guinea fruit fly Bactrocera trivialis (Drew) (Diptera: Tephritidae)

Scientific Reports, 2022
The cue-lure-responding New Guinea fruit fly, Bactrocera trivialis, poses a biosecurity risk to neighbouring countries, e.g., Australia. In trapping programs, lure caught flies are usually morphologically discriminated from non-target species; however ...
Melissa L. Starkie, Elizabeth V. Fowler, Xiaocheng Zhu, Arati Agarwal, Lea Rako, Isarena C. Schneider, Mark K. Schutze, Jane E. Royer, David Gopurenko, Peter Gillespie, Mark J. Blacket   +10 more
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Raspberry ketone diet supplement reduces attraction of sterile male Queensland fruit fly to cuelure by altering expression of chemoreceptor genes

Scientific Reports, 2021
Sterile male Queensland fruit fly, Bactrocera tryoni (Froggatt), fed as immature adults on the plant compound raspberry ketone (RK), show a reduced attraction to cuelure, a synthetic analogue of RK used as an attractant in Male Annihilation Technique. We
Mohammed Abul Monjur Khan, Nandan P. Deshpande, Lucas A. Shuttleworth, Terry Osborne, Damian Collins, Marc R. Wilkins, Geoff M. Gurr, Olivia L. Reynolds   +7 more
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FRUIT FLIES (DIPTERA: TEPHRITIDAE) DIVERSITY IN HORTICULTURAL FARM OF MERAWANG SUB-DISTRICT, BANGKA DISTRICT, BANGKA BELITUNG ISLANDS

Jurnal Hama dan Penyakit Tumbuhan Tropika, 2020
Fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) are main pests in fruit and vegetable cultivation. There are 4000 species of fruit flies in the world and 35% of them are important pests, including commercial fruits that have high economic value.
Rahayu Supratiwi, Rion Apriyadi, Euis Asriani   +2 more
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