olive fruit fly

English

Noun

olive fruit fly (plural olive fruit flies)

1. Synonym of olive fly (Bactrocera oleae).
   • 2009, Richard Frankham, “Genetic Architecture of Reproductive Fitness and its Consequences”, in Julius van der Werf, Hans-Ulrich Graser, Richard Frankham, Cedric Gondro, editors, Adaptation and Fitness in Animal Populations: Evolutionary and Breeding Perspectives on Genetic Resource Management, Springer, →ISBN, page 28:

     Evidence from Drosophila, screwworm flies, olive fruit flies and fish all points to genetic adaptation to captivity involving rare alleles, deleterious in the wild and partially recessive there (Frankham 2008).

   • 2013 November 21, Frances Rivetti, “Olive harvest and the battle against fruit flies”, in Petaluma Argus-Courier, page C1:

     According to the University of California’s Agriculture and Natural Resources department, the olive fruit fly (bactrocera oleae) poses not only a severe economic threat for the state’s cutting edge olive oil industry, but any one, individual fruit bearing ornamental olive tree, untreated on a private property, is at risk of exacerbating the problem.

   • 2016 December 25, Chris Stewart, “Invasive beetle could put olive trees at risk”, in Dayton Daily News, volume 140, number 73, page A21:

     “That’s a good question whether it can make that big jump from the Rocky Mountains into California, Hester said. “But you know anything is possible.” As proven with both the olive fruit fly and the emerald ash borer, invasive species often take big leaps.