Trapping Related to Phytosanitary Status and Trade

Trapping of tephritid fruit flies forms the backbone of many activites related to phytosanitary issues and regulation of trade of fresh fruits and vegetables between countries. Detection of incipient fruit fly populations can occur through a number of means, such as visual surveys, fruit cutting (to reveal the presence of eggs and larvae), collection and holding of fruits to determine if fruit flies emerge from the collected fruits, and perhaps the most commonly used method, trapping of adult flies using some combination of specific trap types, such as the McPhail, MultiLure, Jackson, etc., and semiochemical attractant, such as a food lure, pheromone, or male lure and kairomonal attractant.