• Maggot bore into semi-ripen fruits with decayed spots and dropping of fruits.
• Oozing of fluid
• Brownish rotten patches on fruits.

Identification of pest

• Larva - Yellowish apodous maggots.
• Adult - Light brown with transparent wing
  

Maggots of fruit fly dropping out of mango fruit	Mango fruit fly	Maggot

Management

• Collect fallen infested fruits and dispose them by dumping in a pit
• Provide summer ploughing to expose the pupa
• Monitor the activity of flies with methyl eugenol sex lure traps.
• Bait spray - combing any one of the insecticides and molasses or jaggery 10 g/l,
  • malathion 50EC 2 ml/l,
  • dimethoate 30 EC 1 ml/l,
  • carbaryl 50 WP 4 g/l. two rounds at 2 weeks interval before ripening of fruits.
  Biological control
  • Field release of natural enemies Opius compensates and Spalangia philippines