4 BULLETIN 640, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



HOW THE FRUIT FLY GOT INTO HAWAH. 



A number of popular accounts tell how the Mediterranean fruit 

 flv became established in Honolulu, but they are without foundation. 



Establishment came as a natural sequence of the development of 

 rapid ocean travel and cold storage, aided by unusually favorable 

 shore conditions about the harbor of Honolulu. Hawaii was in no 

 danger of infestation until 1898. Before that year ships touching 



