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- Mediterranean fruit fly
Mediterranean fruit fly
noun
: a small widely distributed yellowish-brown dipteran fly (Ceratitis capitata) with a banded abdomen whose larva lives and feeds in ripening fruit
called also medfly
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“Mediterranean fruit fly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Mediterranean%20fruit%20fly. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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