The larvae feed on the olive flesh, leaving brown tracks and tunnels. Olive Fruit Fly: Biology, Control, and Research Update 2004 (pdf) Marshall W. Johnson, UCCE, Entomology Dept., UC Riverside.
The olive fruit fly is strictly monophagous (Ochando and Reyes, 2000), and the female lays eggs in olive fruits. Once they begin reproducing indoors, females are able to lay about 500 eggs and the eggs will hatch in as little as 24-30 hours after being deposited by the female.
46-slide presentation Olive Fruit Fly: GF-120 NF Naturalyte Fruit Fly Bait (pdf) Supplemental labeling, Dow AgroSciences (2 pp.) The presence of OLF maggots or pupae within a single fruit will be enough to cause rejection of a grower's entire crop. Olive fruit fly.
It can survive and develop in any area of the world where olive trees are grown.
These lures are protected by Patent No. Olive Fruit Fly… It was recently introduced from the Mediterranean where it has been a problem for thousands of years. Bactrocera Oleae, also called olive fruit fly is a species of fruit fly which belongs to the Dacinae subfamily. At end of wra The Situation: Olive fruit fly is the major insect pest of olive crops worldwide.It is in the insect family Tephritidae that contains many well know pests species such as the Mediterranean fruit fly.
Nonharvested fruit continues to grow increasing the availability of larval food. PURPOSE STATEMENT: Organic olive fruit fly lures and bait control olive fruit fly pest insects without chemical pesticides contacting crop: thus no crop pesticide residues. Torula yeast tablet that easily dissolves in water. : US 9,307,755 B1; A second US Patent Pending; International Patents Pending. The olive fruit fly (OLF), Bactrocera oleae (Rossi), is a relatively recent invasive species and is considered the primary olive pest. Olive fruit fly adults were found to develop from fruit that had a height of ≥1.0 cm in laboratory tests and 1.1 cm in field collected fruit. It lays its eggs just under the skin of the olive fruit. The adult olive fruit fly is rarely seen. For use in the trapping of Olive Fruit Fly. It has impacted olive production since biblical times. The olive fruit fly is a serious pest of olives in California. Unfortunately the Traps only caught a small fraction of the fruit flies as every one of the olives on each of my eleven olive trees are severely infected, and unusable for either curing or for oil.
Due to the feeding of the second instar of the olive fruit fly larvae close to the pit of the fruit, the ability to successfully parasitize certain hosts is limited, a problem that has been well documented for other fruit fly parasitoids (Sivinski et al., 2001; Sivinski and Aluja, 2003; Wang et al., 2008b). Its larvae feed on the fruit of olive trees and is considered a serious pest in the cultivation of olives for table olive and olive oil production. Place 3-4 tablets in the McPhail trap and fill with water to the line. Make sure to add water as it evaporates when the weather is warm. The flies are attracted into the trap and drown. If you use plastic wrap to reduce unraveling please wrap it very tight. The traps caught a lot of fruit flies as well as house flies, moths, yellow jackets, and even a baby bird.
In olive orchards, olive fruit fly could possibly develop in smaller fruit than used in this study. Fruit flies also may breed and develop in drains, garbage disposals, trash cans, and mop buckets. Replace the yeast tablets monthly. The olive fruit fly is among the most serious insect pests of the olive agro-ecosystem (Navrozidis et al., 2000).
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