Fruit Fly(फल कुहाउने औँसा )

Catalogue Type

Plant Pests Catalogue

Scientific Name

Bactrocera minax

Family

Tephritidae

Distinguishing Characters

Adult is like common housefly. Wings are stretched outside. They are generally white coloured.

Host Crop

Citrus Fruits

Order

Diptera

Photo of Insect

Photo of Damaged Crop

Description

The female flies puncture the soft and tender fruits with their stout and hard ovipositor and lay eggs below the epidermis.

- On hatching, the maggots which are voracious in nature feed inside on the pulp of fruits.

- The infested fruits can be identified by the presence of brown resinous juice which oozes out of the punctures made by the flies for oviposition.

- These punctures also serve as an entry for various bacteria and fungi which results for rotting, distortion and malformation and pre-matured falling of fruits.