USDA secures $129.2 million in emergency funds to deter fruit flies -- some of the most destructive fruit and vegetable pests ...

Additionally, by-products from insect mass rearing facilities can be used ... and the SIT has been applied in several states in Mexico, to control populations of the Mexican fruit fly and the West ...

The Insect Pest Control Subprogramme carries out Research and Development ... Current research topics of the Fruit Fly Research Group include: (1) improvement of rearing methodology and radiation ...