Tuesday 6 February 2024

How a Common Office Product Can Speed Up Monitoring for Invasive Fruit Flies

Three-part image: Top left shows a strawberry sitting inside a clear plastic sheet protector on a white table. Top right shows a human hand poised just above the fruit in the protector after partially crushing the fruit within. Bottom shows a sheet protector with a dried reddish-brown smear inside and several small larvae visible, each with a black arrow pointing to it.

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Sheet protectors keep pages in a binder pristine, but entomologists in France have found a new use for them as a handy tool for quick visual inspection of fruit infested with larvae of the invasive fruit fly spotted-wing drosophila. Just crush the fruit inside the sheet protector and count the larvae. [Read more]

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