Mexican fruit fly

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• mexican fruit fly — noun Usage: usually capitalized M : a small trypetid fly (Anastrepha ludens) having a maggot that feeds in and damages various fruits (as citruses and mangoes) * * * Mexican fruit fly, a fly native to Mexico and found as far south as Panama and… …   Useful english dictionary

• fruit fly — 1. any of numerous small dipterous insects of the family Tephritidae, the larvae of which feed on the fruit of various plants. 2. See vinegar fly. 3. drosophila. [1745 55] * * * Any dipteran species of two families: large fruit flies (Trypetidae) …   Universalium

• Jamaican fruit bat — Conservation status Least C …   Wikipedia

• Jamaican fruit bat — ▪ mammal also called  Mexican fruit bat        a common and widespread bat of Central and South America with a fleshy nose leaf resembling a third ear positioned on the muzzle. The Jamaican fruit bat has gray brown fur and indistinct, whitish… …   Universalium

• tobacco fly — Tomato To*ma to, n.; pl. {Tomatoes}. [Sp. or Pg. tomate, of American Indian origin; cf. Mexican tomail.] (Bot.) The fruit of a plant of the Nightshade family ({Lycopersicum esculentun}); also, the plant itself. The fruit, which is called also… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Tephritidae — Taxobox name = Tephritidae image width = 240px image caption = Euaresta aequalis regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda subphylum = Hexapoda classis = Insecta subclassis = Pterygota infraclassis = Neoptera superordo = Endopterygota| ordo = Diptera …   Wikipedia

• Anastrepha ludens — Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum …   Wikipedia

• Sterile insect technique — is a method of biological control, whereby millions of sterile insects are released. The released insects are normally male as it is the female that causes the damage, usually by laying eggs in the crop, or, in the case of mosquitoes, taking a… …   Wikipedia

• morelos orange worm — məˈrā lōs noun Usage: usually capitalized M Etymology: Morelos, state in south central Mexico : the maggot of the Mexican fruit fly …   Useful english dictionary

• Avocado — taxobox name = Alvacodo image caption = Avocado fruit and foliage, Huntington Library, California regnum = Plantae unranked divisio = Angiosperms unranked classis = Magnoliids ordo = Laurales familia = Lauraceae genus = Persea species = P.… …   Wikipedia

• insect — insectival /in sek tuy veuhl/, adj. /in sekt/, n. 1. any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), and having three pairs of legs and usually two… …   Universalium