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10/17/2018 / By Edsel Cook

A tropical fruit found to be an effective natural fruit fly killer

There is an irony about a tropical fruit providing a natural means of killing a fruit fly. Brazilian researchers investigated the possibility of using extracts from the seeds of Annona (Annonaceae) fruits as organic insecticides against the spotted-wing drosophila (Drosophila suzukii). They reported that the seed extracts could kill the fruit flies and stop them from […]

10/03/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Annona is a natural insecticide to fruit flies

Several species of Annona (Annonaceae) were tested as natural means of managing the spotted-wing drosophila (Drosophila suzukii). The Brazilian research team found that the extracts were fairly effective insecticides that could inhibit the ability of the fruit fly to lay eggs on strawberries. The study was supported by the Research and Rural Extension Company of Santa Catarina. […]

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