Pest on crop
Mediterranean Fruit Fly on lemon
Ceratitis capitata
Quarantine pest in many regions. Adult females puncture ripening fruit to lay eggs; larvae tunnel through the flesh, causing premature drop and rot.
- Pest
- Mediterranean Fruit Fly
- Scientific name
- Ceratitis capitata
- Crop
- Lemon
- Total hosts
- 9
Mediterranean Fruit Fly on lemon
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Signs on lemon
- ▸ puncture marks on fruit skin
- ▸ soft sunken patches
- ▸ white maggots inside flesh
- ▸ premature fruit drop
IPM controls
- ✓ Bag fruit individually with paper or fine mesh sleeves before color break
- ✓ Sanitation: collect and destroy all dropped and overripe fruit weekly
- ✓ Cue-lure or methyl-eugenol traps for monitoring
- ✓ Spinosad-based bait sprays; coordinate with local quarantine programs where active
Other crops affected by mediterranean fruit fly
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