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Ceratitis capitata

Index Ceratitis capitata

Ceratitis capitata, the Mediterranean fruit fly, or medfly for short, is a species of fruit fly capable of causing extensive damage to a wide range of fruit crops. [1]

40 relations: Alexander Macleay, Animal, Arthropod, Australasia, B. T. Collins, Blueberry, California, California Department of Food and Agriculture, California National Guard, Ceratitis, Chile, Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann, Dixon, California, El Cajon, California, Entomology, Environmentalism, Ferdinando Arborio Gattinara di Breme, Florida, Fly, Fruit, Governor of California, Hawaii, Insect, Invasive species, Jerry Brown, Malathion, Mario Bezzi, New Zealand, North America, Opsin, Pupa, San Francisco Bay Area, South America, Sterile insect technique, Tephritidae, Texas, The San Diego Union-Tribune, United States National Agricultural Library, University of Hawaii, XY sex-determination system.

Alexander Macleay

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Animal

Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Arthropod

An arthropod (from Greek ἄρθρον arthron, "joint" and πούς pous, "foot") is an invertebrate animal having an exoskeleton (external skeleton), a segmented body, and paired jointed appendages.

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Australasia

Australasia, a region of Oceania, comprises Australia, New Zealand, neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean and, sometimes, the island of New Guinea (which is usually considered to be part of Melanesia).

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B. T. Collins

Brien Thomas "B.

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Blueberry

Blueberries are perennial flowering plants with blue– or purple–colored berries.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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California Department of Food and Agriculture

The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) is a cabinet-level agency in the government of California.

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California National Guard

The California National Guard is a federally funded California military force, part of the National Guard of the United States.

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Ceratitis

Ceratitis is a genus of tephritid fruit flies with about 80 species.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

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Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann

Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann (December 7, 1770 in Brunswick – December 31, 1840 in Kiel), was a German physician, historian, naturalist and entomologist.

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Dixon, California

Dixon is a city in northern Solano County, California, United States, located from the state capital, Sacramento.

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El Cajon, California

El Cajon is a city in San Diego County, California, United States located 17 miles (27 km) east of Downtown San Diego.

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Entomology

Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology.

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Environmentalism

Environmentalism or environmental rights is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement regarding concerns for environmental protection and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks to incorporate the impact of changes to the environment on humans, animals, plants and non-living matter.

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Ferdinando Arborio Gattinara di Breme

Ferdinando Arborio Gattinara di Breme (or François Brême or Ferdinando Arborio di Gattinara), Duc de Sartirana Lomellina, marquis de Breme (30 April 1807 in Milan – 23 January 1869 in Florence) was an Italian naturalist and entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera and Diptera.

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Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.

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Fly

True flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- di- "two", and πτερόν pteron "wings".

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Fruit

In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) formed from the ovary after flowering.

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Governor of California

The Governor of California is the head of government of the U.S. state of California.

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Hawaii

Hawaii (Hawaii) is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States, having received statehood on August 21, 1959.

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Insect

Insects or Insecta (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates and the largest group within the arthropod phylum.

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Invasive species

An invasive species is a species that is not native to a specific location (an introduced species), and that has a tendency to spread to a degree believed to cause damage to the environment, human economy or human health.

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Jerry Brown

Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown Jr. (born April 7, 1938) is an American politician, author and lawyer serving as the 39th and current Governor of California since 2011, previously holding the position from 1975 to 1983, making him the state's longest-serving Governor.

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Malathion

Malathion is an organophosphate insecticide which acts as an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor.

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Mario Bezzi

Mario Bezzi (1 August 1868, Milan – 14 January 1927, Turin) was an Italian professor of zoology at the University of Turin.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Opsin

Opsins are a group of proteins, made light-sensitive, via the chromophore retinal found in photoreceptor cells of the retina.

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Pupa

A pupa (pūpa, "doll"; plural: pūpae) is the life stage of some insects undergoing transformation between immature and mature stages.

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San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area (popularly referred to as the Bay Area) is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun estuaries in the northern part of the U.S. state of California.

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South America

South America is a continent in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Sterile insect technique

The sterile insect technique (SIT) is a method of biological insect control, whereby overwhelming numbers of sterile insects are released into the wild.

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Tephritidae

The Tephritidae are one of two fly families referred to as fruit flies, the other family being the Drosophilidae.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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The San Diego Union-Tribune

The San Diego Union-Tribune is an American metropolitan daily newspaper, published in San Diego, California. Its name derives from a 1992 merger between the two major daily newspapers at the time, The San Diego Union and the San Diego Evening Tribune. The name changed to U-T San Diego in 2012 but was changed again to The San Diego Union-Tribune in 2015. In 2015, it was acquired by Tribune Publishing, later renamed tronc. In February 2018 it was announced to be sold, along with the Los Angeles Times, to Patrick Soon-Shiong's investment firm Nant Capital LLC for $500 million plus $90m in pension liabilities. The sale closed on June 18, 2018.

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United States National Agricultural Library

The United States National Agricultural Library (NAL) is one of the world's largest agricultural research libraries, and serves as a national library of the United States and as the library of the United States Department of Agriculture.

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University of Hawaii

The University of Hawaiʻi system (formally the University of Hawaiʻi and popularly known as UH) is a public, co-educational college and university system that confers associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees through three university campuses, seven community college campuses, an employment training center, three university centers, four education centers and various other research facilities distributed across six islands throughout the State of Hawaii in the United States.

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XY sex-determination system

The XY sex-determination system is the sex-determination system found in humans, most other mammals, some insects (Drosophila), some snakes, and some plants (Ginkgo).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratitis_capitata

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