4 BULLETIN 640, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
HOW THE FRUIT FLY GOT INTO HAW AH. 
A number of popular accounts tell how the Mediterranean fruit 
fly became established in Honolulu, but they are without foundation. 
Establishment came as a natural sequence of the deyelopment of 
rapid ocean trayel and cold storage, aided by unusually favorable 
shore conditions about the harbor of Honolulu. Hawaii was in no 
danger of infestation until 1S98. Before that year ships touching 
