date:Aug 08, 2019
o-author of the paper. Dara Stockton, a postdoctoral associate in Loeb's lab, is the paper's first author. The more we learn about the flies, the better we can control their populations, Stockton said.
In lab experiments, the researchers found that out of 11 alternate dietary choices that included bird manure, the spotted-wing drosophila did best on diets of mushroom and mushroom-apple mixtures.
Based on numbers of flies captured in traps, spotted-wing drosophila become detectable in May, with