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Flying in the face of grapefruit.

Publication: Agricultural Research
Publication Date: 01-JUN-02 		Format: Online - approximately 883 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Flying in the face of grapefruit.(Brief Article)

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Keeping Mexican fruit flies out of grapefruit orchards in South Texas is a tough job--despite new findings that when fruit flies hatch, they don't even like grapefruit.

This pest annually infests citrus in Texas, Mexico, and Central America and threatens California and Florida. Female fruit flies lay eggs in the fruit. When the larvae hatch, they feed on the pulp, ruining the fruit for human consumption.

Ten-year losses from the Mexican fruit fly in South Texas and northern Mexico alone have been estimated at almost $7 billion from export sanctions, lost markets, treatment costs, and reduced crop yields.

That Mexican fruit flies are not naturally attracted to grapefruit was a surprising fact uncovered by ARS entomologists David Robacker and Ivich Fraser as they investigated what factors attract the insect to an...

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