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.