Pepper Fruit Fly

Catalogue Type
Plant Pests Catalogue
Scientific Name
Atherigona Orientalis
Family
Muscidae
Distinguishing Characters
Color - orange to brown, except for postpronotal lobes and tip of scutellum (yellow).
Larvae are Body peg-like in shape, tapering anteriorly and bluntly rounded posteriorly.
Host Crop
Cabbage and, bell, orange, melon, tomato, beans and sorghum
Order
Diptera
Photo of Insect
Photo of Damaged Crop
Description

This fly is highly polyphagous.

Larvae feed and develop on live and decaying plant material, feces, carrion and even the live larvae of other insects including the tobacco caterpillar.