As gardening season blooms across California, officials with the California Department of Food and Agriculture are urging ...

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 ...

Jan. 17 (UPI) --The Department of Agriculture said Friday it has tapped $129 million in emergency funding to battle a worsening incursion of exotic, invasive fruit flies from Mexico and Guatemala.

90, No. 1, Mar., 2007 Sexual Performance of Mass Reared and Wi... Sexual Performance of Mass Reared and Wild Mediterranean Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) from Various Origins of the Madeira ...

Nestled within a traveler’s fresh caper flowers from Italy were long, yellow larvae that caught the eye of agricultural specialists at the Detroit airport, officials said. When the traveler ...

89, No. 3, Sep., 2006 Mating Competitiveness of Mass-Reared Ma... Mating Competitiveness of Mass-Reared Males of the Mediterranean Fruit Fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) from Eclosion Towers This is the ...

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 ...

As gardening season blooms across California, officials with the CDFA are urging residents to stay alert and take action.

Controls on the movement of fruit and vegetables in the Auckland North Shore suburb of Birkdale have been lifted after no ...