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Archive Home > 2010 > March > 15 > Northwest farmers, researchers scrambling to stop Asian fruit fly

Northwest farmers, researchers scrambling to stop Asian fruit fly

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
March 15, 2010

PORTLAND — Farmers and researchers in the Northwest are racing to control an Asian fruit fly that first appeared last summer and ruined some late-season peach and berry crops.

The fly is known as the spotted wing drosophila and appears to have migrated from California, where it appeared in 2008.....

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