All Fruit Fly Pests

Fruit flies whose maggots feed inside ripening fruit, including the tephritid fruit flies and the spotted wing drosophila. A pest belongs here when its cited article calls it a fruit fly or a fly that is a fruit pest. Because the maggots feed inside the fruit, damage is often invisible until harvest, and trade in fresh fruit is restricted in many countries to keep these flies out. Control uses trapping, baits, sanitation of fallen fruit and, for some species, releases of sterile males. This heading gathers the fruit fly species of the atlas so a visitor can compare their hosts and ranges.