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- Collect and destroy infested fruits.
- Flytraps (pheromone traps) can be set to prevent egg-laying by fruit flies.
- Maize plant s grown in the field are effective as flies rest on such tall plants.
- Deep ploughing should be done to expose hibernating stages of fruit flies.
- spray dichlorvos 76% EC 250 to 500ml/acre or
- Lambda Cyhalothrin 4.9% CS @ 200 ml/acre. or
- Profenofos 40%EC + Cypermethrin 4 %EC @ 400 ml/acre
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- The worm bores into the fruits and sucks the sap.
- Infected fruits fall after decaying.
- These flies prefer tender fruits for egg-laying.
- The fly bore a hole into the fruit to lay her eggs inside it. Fruit Juice can be seen coming out from these holes.
- This also results in distorted and malformed.
- The maggots feed on the pulp of fruits as well as on the immature seeds and cause premature dropping of fruits.
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