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ARS scientists are helping French Polynesia manage its Oriental fruit fly outbreak. Here, a female Oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis, lays eggs by inserting her ovipositor in the skin of a papaya.

 

Photo by Scott Bauer.


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