The Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata) ("medfly"), attacks over 250 species of fruits and vegetables. Females puncture fruit when they lay eggs and hatched larvae destroy the fruit. With ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 85, No. 1 (Mar., 2002), pp. 94-101 (8 pages) The effect of age on the mating propensity of both wild and laboratory-reared Mediterranean fruit flies, Ceratitis capitata ...

The sterile insect technique (SIT) is increasingly being used around the world to control Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) (Diptera: Tephritidae), the Mediterranean fruit fly as part of an area-wide ...

Only a few days after federal and state agricultural officials reported that all populations of invasive fruit flies have been eradicated from California a single mated female Mediterranean fruit ...

The county’s agricultural commissioner last week introduced measures to prevent the spread of Mediterranean fruit flies over ...

Earlier this month, the California Department of Food and Agriculture quarantined 69 square miles of metro L.A. after invasive and destructive Mediterranean fruit flies were found at a home in ...