Symptoms of damage

• Adults and maggots attack semi – ripe fruits
• Oviposition punctures on fruits
• Maggots destroy and convert pulp into a bad smelling
• Discoloured semi liquid mass

Identification of pest

• Adult - Brown or dark brown with hyaline wings and yellow legs

Management

• Collect and destroy fallen and infested fruits
• Summer ploughing to expose pupa
• Use methyl eugenol lure trap (25/ha) to monitor and kill adults of fruit flies
• Prepare methyl eugenol and malathion 50 EC mixture at 1:1 ratio( take 10 ml mixture/ trap)
• Inseciticides: malathion 50 EC 0.05%
• Bait spray combining molasses or jaggery 10g/l and one of the insecticides,
  • malathion 50 EC 2 ml/l
  • dimethoate 30 EC 1ml/lit, two rounds at fortnight interval before ripening of fruits
  • Field release of parasitoids such as
  • Opius compensatus
  • Spalangia philippinensis,
  • parasitoid wasp, Diachasmimorpha kraussi