medfly
noun
medflies
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pluralof medfly.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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After discovery of three Mediterranean fruit flies, or medflies, in October, Los Angeles County officials dropped millions of sterile flies on a 9-square-mile area around Baldwin Hills to prevent an outbreak.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
In 1980, state and federal agencies mounted an eradication operation after an outbreak of medflies in the Santa Clara Valley southeast of San Francisco.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2023
They were about half as successful as wild mosquitoes, which sounds poor, but is actually better than a lot of other modified insects, including the successful sterile medflies.
From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2011
For evolution in the mating behavior of laboratory populations of medflies, see Rodriguero, M. S. et al.
From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2010
Malathion spraying, the agency argues, is a necessary supplement to "biotechnical control," which consists of releasing 140 million sterile male medflies weekly into infested areas to disrupt the insects' prodigious reproduction.
From Time Magazine Archive
