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The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 90, No. 2 (Jun., 2007), pp. 384-388 (5 pages) The authors evaluated the host status of mamey sapote, Pouteria sapota (Sapotaceae) to Anastrepha obliqua by collecting ...

If you enjoy the fruit that you harvest from your orange, avocado and apple trees, you can make more trees just like them by either planting in your own yard or giving the fruit as gifts for other to ...

Field trapping of Anastrepha suspensa (Loew) in groves of mamey sapote, Pouteria sapota (Jacq.), showed that fly populations were present in high numbers in all of the groves used for the experiments.