Goodbye Fruit Flies? Here’s a New 5-Year Strategy To Fight The Pests By USDA-APHIS|April 18, 2024 USDA-APHIS aims to protect hundreds of crops from invasive fruit flies with new comprehensive detection and exclusion plan.Read More
What You Need To Know about New Final Rule That Protects Farmworkers Posted by Growing Produce Staff|April 26, 2024
Avoid These Mistakes When Flying Drones Over Your Farm Field By Ksenia Korolkova, Proofminder|April 24, 2024
Big Plans To Help Mitigate Fruit Fly Scourge in California By California Department of Food and Agriculture|January 22, 2024 All host fruit for the Oriental fruit fly to be removed from properties, with trees remaining in place.
Fruit Fly Invasion Situation Grows on in Southern California By USDA-APHIS|January 2, 2024 USDA-APHIS expands Oriental fruit fly quarantine in response to more confirmed detections of adult flies from various trapping sites.
Relentless Surge of Fruit Flies a Pain for California Growers By UC Agriculture and Natural Resources News|November 27, 2023 Recent finds involving multiple species of the flying pest have sparked seven different quarantines across the state.
Parts of Central California on Alert for Oriental Fruit Fly Menace By California Department of Food and Agriculture|September 13, 2023 The Oriental Fruit Fly pest is known to target more than 230 different fruit, vegetable, and plant commodities.
Heads Up: Exotic Fruit Fly Finds Spark New Quarantine in Florida Posted by Paul Rusnak|June 27, 2022 Oriental fruit flies discovered in traps around St. Petersburg area. Learn more about this pest that attacks more than 400 fruits, vegetables, and nuts.
Fruit Fly Outbreak Declared Dead in South Florida Posted by Paul Rusnak|October 4, 2018 State agriculture department officials and USDA announce another successful eradication of the invasive pest in Miami-Dade County.
Oriental Fruit Fly Threat Surfaces in South Florida Posted by Paul Rusnak|June 5, 2018 Multiple findings of exotic pest push local agriculture officials to launch eradication efforts.
At Least $4.1 Million Lost In South Florida Fruit Fly Outbreak Posted by Paul Rusnak|July 5, 2016 UF/IFAS researchers take optimistic route, say damage from last summer’s invasive pest onslaught could have been much worse.
Oriental Fruit Fly Successfully Eradicated In Miami-Dade County Posted by Paul Rusnak|February 22, 2016 Quarantine no longer in effect; products now allowed to move freely.
Exotic Fruit Flies Invade South Florida Posted by Paul Rusnak|August 31, 2015 Efforts are under way to eradicate pest that attacks more than 230 different fruits, vegetables, and nuts.
APHIS Proposal To Allow Apples From China Becomes Rule Posted by Christina Herrick|April 23, 2015 Growers in China expected to follow set standards of production to prevent possible importing of new pests.