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Study Shines a (Fluorescent) Light on Invasive Fruit Fly Trapping

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This post Study Shines a (Fluorescent) Light on Invasive Fruit Fly Trapping appeared first on Entomology Today – The latest news about entomology, brought to you by the Entomological Society of America.

To estimate the catch rate of traps for invasive spotted-wing drosophila fruit flies in tart cherry orchards, researchers at Michigan State University first marked thousands of flies with fluorescent dust and released them. Then they counted the recaptured flies under ultraviolet light.

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