Samari

• Olketa bin faendem melon fly long samfala pat long Australia (Queensland), Guam, Kiribati, Nauru, Northern Mariana Islands, PNG, an Solomon Islands.
• Hem nao namba wan pest blong cucumber family wetem olketa solanum famili olsem egg plant an tomato.
• Frut flae hemi bonem eggs (wetem wanfala spesol – bakteria) insaed long olketa flaoa an frut taem hemi nilam go bodi blong frut an mekem wanfala mak lo hem. Datfala bakteria hemi kwiktaem fo mekem frut ia roten an wom blong fly hem kakaim an go het fo grou insaed long frut. Olketa frut wea flae hemi spoelem babae roten an foldaon long graon wea wom (lava) babae grou insaed gogo kasem taem babae hem senis go long piupa an den adalt. Adalt flae hem kolsap sem saes nomoa olsem haus flae, an hem garem wanfala yalo kala mark long solda blong hem an wetem tu mak olsem leta T long asi blong hem. Babae iu save lukim tu olketa smol braon kala long tufala wing blong hem. Life cycle takem 3 – 5 weeks.  Adalt fly save live for many weeks.
• Hemi save spred taem hem flae go long nara ples (hem strong lelebet fo flae) or taem pipol an olketa animol karem go frut wea garem wom lo narafala ples.
• Nasrol enemies: Psyttalia fletcheri (from india – Hawaii) Samfala save dae tu long Momordica, bata hemi no plande lo olketa frut wea pipol plandem.
• Biosecurity: Samfala niu sistem and arenjmen wea mekem market hemi isi wetem nara kandere olsem.
• Olketa rul fo folom behaen havest , HTFA (High Temperature forced air); Low temp, sinkim daon insaed long insecticide, irradiation, eria wea fri from melon fly, eria wea evri fama mas waka tugeda fo kontrolem melon flae.
• Save doim tu kwarantin insaed long kandere taem wea melon flae hemi no barava olova long ples or samfala kandere wea oketa fri iet from frut flae bata garem boda wetem narawan wea i nogut finis.
• Lokol kontrol: (i) monitarem – usim pheromone fo trapem olketa mane wan(cure-lure); sekem olowe olketa frut blo u taem olketa gogo fo raep (ii) Usim protein bait – maripan or yeast autolysate olsem meresen fo spreim frut; (iii) Hygiene – kavarem frut blong iu wetem klin plastic bag; havest taem frut hem jas stat fo raep; pikim ap everi frut wea foldaon long graon, an olketa wea karem kil finis an mas bonem or berem long graon. (iv) Krop rotasin (v) bonem or berem olketa rabis frut or flaoa
• Eradikasin: Som aot klia oketa aria fo kwarantin; kontrolem eni frut wea kam insaed or go aotsaed long aria, tekem aot everi frut long olketa tri an pikim olketa wea foldaon long graon an bonem. Samfala wei tu hem osem protein bait/sprei wetem insektisaed, male annihilation; an SIT ( sterile insect technique)
• Kemikol kontrol: Protein bait (yeast hydrolysate) wetem insektisaed

Komon nem: Melon fly

Saentifik nem: Zeugodacus cucurbitae; fastaem tu olketa saentis bin kolem long Bactrocera (Zeugodacus) cucurbitae, and Bactrocera cucurbitae.