THE MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT FLY. 



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Fig. 11 .—Ornamental trees and shrubs grown in Hawaii that support the fruit fly. It is useless to protect 

 edible fruits when ornamentals are allowed to grow near by that harbor the fruit fly: a, The bestill, 

 showing drops of white sap that exude when the fly punctures the skin; b, a coffee cherry sectioned to 

 show the maggots feeding on the pulp; c, the lichee nut is not attacked by the fly unless the outer skin 

 has broken; d,& damson plum, showing an adult fly caught in the sticky sap; e, a cotton bollinfested 

 by the pink bollworm and the fruit fly; /, a cluster of mock-orange berries; g, a rose apple sectioned to 

 show fruit-fly attack; h, the carissa, showing drops of white sapthathave exuded from punctures made 

 in the skin by the fruit fly; i, the elengi berries, that develop many fruit flies. 



