Fruitful Returns From Fruit Fly Management Project USDA. Agricultural Research Service. Agricultural Research Magazine (Feb 2008 - Vol. 56, No. 2).
A regional effort launched in 2000 to develop effective biocontrol methods for a quartet of exotic insect pests that have attacked fruits and vegetables all across the Hawaiian Islands (U.S.) has paid off handsomely with an economic return of more than 30 percent, according to information released recently by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service.
