The present initiative consists of a Comprehensive National Surveillance program that deploys and services Medfly traps along designated trapping routes, a Medfly Eradication Action Plan that includes different measures ...

Dopamine (DA) and norepinephrine (NE) derivatives play an important role in the sclerotization and pigmentation of insect cuticles by serving as precursors for cuticular cross-linking. Protein preparations from prepupae ...

Ceratitis capitata is the most serious agricultural pest in Argentinean fruit-growing regions. The use of baited traps for Medfly control is an expanding and increasingly successful integrated management strategy. The high ...

Exotic plants favor persistence and spread of the invasive medfly, Ceratitis capitata. Peach and orange are key host plants for medfly proliferation in Argentina. Consequently, actions to suppress medfly populations are taken, ...

Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) (Diptera: Tephritidae), known as Medfly, is a severe agricultural invasive pest in Argentinian fruit-producing regions. The native habitat disturbance and introduction and spread of exotic ...