Halterophora Capitata
In an orange grove near Orlando, Fla., last month, a U. S. Department of Agriculture employe cut open an orange, prepared to sink his teeth into it, halted at a horrid sight—maggots! He fairly ran to a laboratory where, under a microscope, he made a terrible discovery: the grubs were larvae of Halterophora capitata (Mediterranean fruit fly), most vicious and destructive of dipterous pests, never before found in the U. S. Out went the alarm over Florida. Inspection showed that the infestation had spread through...
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