| 1322088 |
Mexican fruit fly |
Anastrepha ludens |
Mexican fruit flies laying eggs in grapefruit before a test of the reduced-oxygen treatment. |
| 1322089 |
Mexican fruit fly |
Anastrepha ludens |
In grapefruit as well as many other fruits, one female Mexican fruit fly can deposit large numbers of eggs: up to 40 eggs at a time, 100 or more a day, and about 2,000 over her life span |
| 1321083 |
leafcutting bee |
Osmia ribifloris |
This bee, Osmia ribifloris (on a barberry flower), is an effective pollinator of commercial blueberries and is one of several relatives of the blue orchard bee, Osmia lignaria. Similar in appearance, the blue orchard bee is also a successful commercial pollinator that is now being evaluated for use in a wider range of crops. |
| 1321084 |
leafcutting bee |
Osmia ribifloris |
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