medflies
- plural of medfly.
Example Sentences
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The operation was kicked off after the discovery of three Mediterranean fruit flies, or medflies, last month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2023
Within 200 meters of each detection of medflies, properties will be treated with an organic insecticide, and within 100 meters of each detection of larvae or multiple adults, fruit must be removed from trees.
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
Wild female medflies don’t find laboratory-reared males as attractive as they find wild males.
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
