THE MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT FLY. 
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Fig. 11.— Ornamental trees and shrubs grown in Hawaiithat 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,a damson plum, showing an adult fly caught in the sticky sap; e, a cotton boll infested 
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 sap that have exuded from punctures made 
in the skin by the fruit fly; i,theelengi berries, that develop many fruit flies. 
