and it is confidently expected that they will be exterminated in 

 a short time. They are decreasing every year. The adult is a 

 minute white fly, one-tenth of an inch long, looking as if it had 

 been sprinkled with flour, and the immature form is a flat, greenish 

 scale-like insect with habits much like the other scales, but nearly 

 transparent and of waxy appearance. It is less than one-sixteenth 

 of an inch long and lays very flat on the under side of the leaf. 



Maggots and Puparia of the Mediteraneum fruit fly 

 (Ceratitis capitata). 



It deposits the honey dew and the resulting black smut is very 

 bad. In Florida it is their worst citrus pest, and must be driven 

 out of California at any cost. 



The Mediterranean Fruit Fly deposits its eggs in the fruit and 

 they hatch out into an army of white maggots just about the time 

 the fruit ripens. They soon work through the pulp and it rapidly 



