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This presentation is part of : Ten-Minute Papers, Section F. Crop Protection Entomology

Evaluation of GF-120 fruit fly bait against melon flies

Ron Prokopy1, Neil Miller2, Hannah Revis2, Nancy Chaney2, Leslie Oride2, Jaime Pinero1, and Roger I. Vargas2. (1) University of Massachusetts, Entomology, 270 Stockbridge Road, Amherst, MA, (2) U.S. Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center, P.O. Box 4459, Hilo, HI

Under semi-field conditions, we evaluated the ability of GF-120 Fruit Fly Bait spray (applied to sorghum plants surrounding patches of cucumbers) to prevent penetration of marked released melon fly females into cucumber patches.

Species 1: Diptera Tephritidae Bactrocera cucurbitae (melon fly)
Keywords: GF-120, protein bait spray

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