Cultural Management

  • Collect and destroy fallen and infested fruits
  • Summer ploughing to expose pupae
  • Use methyl eugenol lure trap (25/ha) to monitor and kill adults of fruit flies
  • Field release of parasitoids such as

         -Opius compensates

         -Spalangia philippinensis

         -Parasitoid wasp, Diachasmimorpha kraussi