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Fruit flies are one of the mango's biggest pests. The fruit fly lays its eggs within of the mango also the larvae eat the fruit away from the inside from. Commercial also house mango growers have battled fruit flies with years through most success. Whilst prevention about fruit fly infestation yous in addition powerful, there are a few methods employed to kill fruit flies on mangoes once they're already present.

Difficulty: Reasonable

Instructions

Things You'll Need

Pot Insecticide Plastic shrink wrap

1 Spray the mango tree by means of insecticide targeted at fruit flies to destroy the flies prior to they lay their eggs. Cover every fruit on the tree by the pesticide.

2 Wrap the fruit in plastic shrink wrap tightly with no gaps. The wrap suppress fruit flies away from getting to the fruit and will destroy any flies that contain yet gotten inside regarding it by suffocating them.

References

The Hindu; Mango City Goes Natural; G. Prabhakaran Univeristy of Hawaii; "Fruit Flies and Mango Seed Weevil with Relation to Quarantine"; Wallace C. Mitchell Emeritus Professor, Department regarding Entomology

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Londonpests Mar 29, 2011 It maybe safer to spray the mango with any natural organic insecticide being the danger of contmination yous lower. I am some field biologist undertaking pest control north in london and trying to use organic pesticides seeing that much as possible. I am aware that they complete not always perform thought