Warmer weather means pesky fruit flies will be on the rise. Avoid an infestation with prevention hacks from an entomologist.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 91, No. 3 (Sep., 2008), pp. 394-399 (6 pages) In Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) programs, mass-reared males of the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann ...

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 ...

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 California Department of Food and Agriculture are urging ...

ABD-ALLA, A.M., H.M. KARIITHI, F. COUSSERANS, A.G. PARKER, M.J. VREYSEN (2016). Comprehensive annotation of the Glossina pallidipes salivary gland hypertrophy virus ...