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Article: Zapping Hawaii's pesky fruit flies, grid by grid.
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- October 11, 2002
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M2 PRESSWIRE-11 October 2002-US ARS: Zapping Hawaii's pesky fruit flies, grid by grid (C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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A quartet of exotic tropical fruit flies--Oriental, melon, Mediterranean and Malaysian--can easily turn what should be a fresh, luscious tropical fruit or vegetable into a disgusting mess. That's because the fruit flies' tiny, wriggling maggots spoil what would otherwise be a delectable crop.
Agricultural Research Service scientists and their University of Hawaii collaborators are targeting these troublesome flies in an Areawide Integrated Pest Management Program on Fruit Flies in Hawaii. The goal is to ...