{"id":2167,"date":"2020-09-16T10:21:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T10:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/termirepel.com\/blog\/?p=2167"},"modified":"2020-09-19T10:13:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T10:13:14","slug":"the-fruitfly-menace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.termirepel.com\/blog\/the-fruitfly-menace\/","title":{"rendered":"The fruitfly Menace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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If you have been seeing small flies or gnats in your kitchen, they’re probably fruit flies. These pesky pests can be found throughout the world, in homes, gardens, warehouse, grocery stores, wineries, restaurants, etc. They are readily attached to any number of materials, especially that of moisture. Fruit flies can be a problem year round but are especially common during late summer\/fall because they are attracted to ripened or fermenting fruits and vegetables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But\nthey also will breed in drains, garbage disposals, empty bottles and cans,\ntrash containers, mops and cleaning rags. Hence, they also cause various\nbacterial diseases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fruit flies damage the larger proportion of agricultural production and even to crops grown in the gardens which are susceptible to attack by fruitflies. Commercial producers spend hundreds of millions of dollars on control measures and also suffered production losses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tomatoes, melons, mangoes, squash, grapes and other perishable items are often the cause of an infestation. Fruit flies are also attracted to rotting bananas, potatoes, onions and other products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You see, when the fruit is overripe or starts to go bad it begins to ferment, producing alcohol, which attracts fruit flies. They continue to gobble up the fermenting fruit, and in the process, lay hundreds of eggs which hatch into larvae in mere hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Female\nfruit fly lay their eggs into healthy, ripening fruit on the tree. Fruit flies\nlay their eggs up to 500 at a time! When the larvae hatch, they feed on the\nmoist surface too.  The entire life cycle\nfrom egg to adult takes only about eight to ten days so they proliferate with\ngreat rapidity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although\nfruit flies don\u2019t bite humans (they actually don\u2019t have any teeth), many people\nare allergic to the bacteria they carry, resulting in tiny red bumps on the\nskin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us look at some evidences of damage done to fruits by these pesky little fruitflies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fruit flies could affect Fiji\u2019s\nexports to New Zealand<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The presence of fruit flies in\nany commodity exported by Fiji to New Zealand can be detrimental, also\npossibly affecting current bilateral quarantine agreements. Fiji\u2019s Ministry of\nAgriculture and the Biosecurity Authority are keeping a close watch to ensure\nthat fruit flies do not leave the nation\u2019s shores. Fiji exports pawpaw, mangoes,\nbreadfruit, and eggplant to NZ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Fijian fruit fly (Bactrocera passiflorae<\/em>)\nand the Pacific fruit fly (Bactrocera\nxanthodes<\/em>) if found in these commodities sent to New Zealand, will\nhave severe repercussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Permanent Secretary for\nAgriculture Ritesh Dass says it is important that all necessary precautions are\ntaken to prevent fruit fly presence in any export commodity. Dass says the\ntreatment is available to ensure that these fruits are fly free before being\nsent off. He says the Ministry\u2019s Fruit Fly Unit of the Crop Research Division\nis creating awareness programs on the pest as well as its management during\nfield visits and agriculture shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kenyan farmers\nbattle fruit-fly menace as climate warms<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

by Caroline Wambui |\nThomson Reuters Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday, 12 April 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the planet heats up,\ngrowing pest numbers threaten Kenya’s lucrative mango, avocado and other fruit\ncrops<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KIRWIRE\nVILLAGE, Kenya, April 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Gideon Gitonga\ninspected his avocado orchard in central Kenya with military precision,\nrevealing that some of the fruit were tinged with a worryingly familiar yellow\ncolour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet again,\nit was the same culprits attacking his crop on the farm in Kirwire village in\nMeru County: fruit flies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Most\nof the fruits you see with a ripening colour are not ripe,” he said.\n“(They) have been punctured by fruit flies and are in the process of\nrotting and eventually falling off.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the planet’s climate heats up, rising temperatures\nhave driven a massive increase in Kenya’s fruit fly population, say\nagricultural experts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Farmers in fruit fly-infested areas are losing on average up to half their crops each year to the tiny pests, said Onesmus Mwaura, a research assistant at the Nairobi-based\u00a0International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology\u00a0(ICIPE).F<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current insecticides are\nbeing used to control this menace. However besides being toxic and harmful\ninsecticides kill the species. Repeated exposure to insecticides builds up\nresistance in insects, until finally the insecticide has little or no effect.\nFrequent insecticide applications make the problem worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you have been seeing small flies or gnats in your kitchen, they’re probably fruit flies. These pesky pests can be found throughout the world, in homes, gardens, warehouse, grocery stores, wineries, restaurants, etc. They are readily attached to any number of materials, especially that of moisture. Fruit flies can be a problem year round … Continue reading The fruitfly Menace<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.termirepel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.termirepel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.termirepel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.termirepel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.termirepel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2167"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.termirepel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2417,"href":"https:\/\/www.termirepel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions\/2417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.termirepel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.termirepel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.termirepel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}