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Ca has carib fly now?
Quote from: Cookie Monster on September 25, 2018, 11:09:47 AMCa has carib fly now?I really hope not. Behl, what sort of fruit flies are you dealing with?
I did exactly that. where did you get methyl eugenol? I bought from Amazon. I soaked cotton ball and wrapped in plastic wrap, then made few holes so the chemical doesnt evaporate. so far I have not seen any fly in there.
Quote from: behlgarden on September 25, 2018, 03:49:51 PMI did exactly that. where did you get methyl eugenol? I bought from Amazon. I soaked cotton ball and wrapped in plastic wrap, then made few holes so the chemical doesnt evaporate. so far I have not seen any fly in there.You probably have a different species of fruit fly. I bought methyl eugenol from ebay and from the local agricultural supplier and they all worked fine. The smell of methyl eugenol remind me of crushed tulsai/basil leaf.I believe methyl-eugenol only works with Oriental Fruit Fly and Mediterranean fruit fly, if i remember correctly.
I used to work for the AG dept. in the pest prevention program. There are occasional rare individual fruit flies caught in the traps put out, for example back in 1984 my co-worker caught a Queensland fruit fly in San Diego. Every year there are Mexican, Guava, Oriental, Med Flies etc. caught. There are specific lures and trap designs for the melon, med, and oriental fruit fly for example. The Mexican fruit fly is usually caught along with the olive fruit fly and most other harmless diptera (house flies) mostly in the "McPhale" trap which uses the yeast mixture.Behl, if you suspect you have an "exotic" fly take the larva to your county AG department and they can ID it for you. I doubt that you have an infestation of exotic flies because others would be caught in your area where the CDFA places their traps and then there would be a canvassing going on which would require a quarantine of fruit and trees with fruit being moved in your area.
Quote from: marklee on September 25, 2018, 06:03:54 PMI used to work for the AG dept. in the pest prevention program. There are occasional rare individual fruit flies caught in the traps put out, for example back in 1984 my co-worker caught a Queensland fruit fly in San Diego. Every year there are Mexican, Guava, Oriental, Med Flies etc. caught. There are specific lures and trap designs for the melon, med, and oriental fruit fly for example. The Mexican fruit fly is usually caught along with the olive fruit fly and most other harmless diptera (house flies) mostly in the "McPhale" trap which uses the yeast mixture.Behl, if you suspect you have an "exotic" fly take the larva to your county AG department and they can ID it for you. I doubt that you have an infestation of exotic flies because others would be caught in your area where the CDFA places their traps and then there would be a canvassing going on which would require a quarantine of fruit and trees with fruit being moved in your area.Thanks Mark, I did just that and I was asked to take closeup picture of larvae and send to them, and they will get back to me with analysis and possible help in providing further traps for their study. They would not give out any lures, which sucks, no one has lures, looks like more gardeners are out of luck on this. One manufacturer was kind to send me few samples of each to try out to see which one works, but refuses to sell.
lures are out there but not open to common gardner. I reached out to one of the most renouned manufacturer and they sell to Govts's worldwide. they would only sell me if its a large order.
I used to work for the AG dept. in the pest prevention program. There are occasional rare individual fruit flies caught in the traps put out, for example back in 1984 my co-worker caught a Queensland fruit fly in San Diego.
You do realize that - generally speaking - traps are NOT for control, just for monitoring the population? Traps generally don't do a ton for control, but do make you feel better. Kind of like how roach sprays don't do much for population control, but make you feel better. If you do use traps, place them AWAY from your trees, not on them.