Bui. 536, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



Plate XIII. 



The Mango as a Host Fruit of the Mediterranean Fruit Fly. 



Fig. 1. — Larvse of the Mediterranean fruit fly, about natural size, in infested mango. Fig. 2. — 

 No matter how diligently clean-culture inspectors gather fruit during the mango season, each 

 day finds the ground beneath the trees well strewn with fallen infested fruits. Fig. 3.— In- 

 fested fruit about natural size. Note large cavity in upper right side containing several hun- 

 dred white eggs. (Fig. 1, from Severin; figs. 2 and 3, original.) 



