The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 76, No. 2 (Jun., 1993), pp. 263-270 (8 pages) The Caribbean fruit fly (caribfly), Anastrepha suspensa, was introduced into Florida in 1965 and has spread throughout the ...

Hold onto your homegrown fruits and vegetables — invasive fruit flies have sparked a quarantine in parts of Los Angeles County. Caribbean fruit flies, which California officials say are a serious ...

The roots and evolution of this culinary tradition are celebrated over wisps of smoke and hours by the fire. Greg Dupree / Food Styling by Chelsea Zimmer and Melissa Gray / Prop Styling by Audrey ...

Records of Caribbean fruit flies, Anastrepha suspensa (Loew), captured in McPhail traps were analyzed from 48 trapping locations in Dade County (Port of Miami and Homestead) from 1987-1991. Greatest ...

The chayote, as it is called in many American supermarkets, is very popular throughout the Caribbean and Latin America. What is a chayote? A chayote (scientific name sechium edule) is a part of the ...

A decade ago, two-thirds of the bananas we ate in Britain came from the Caribbean, notably the Windward Islands of Dominica, St Lucia, St Vincent and Grenada. Now sales have been whittled away to less ...

As we stand in his colorful York Castle shop, with muted gray light drifting through the front windows on this overcast day in Rockville, Calver “Cal” Headley asks me if I can taste the soursop in his ...

I was 10 years old when my parents took their first tropical vacation to Jamaica. They left me back home in the decidedly less exotic Champlain Islands with my older sisters. When they returned, my ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It’s a sensible concern to check the sources of the foods we eat. Catfish offer a decent background – according to the Catfish Institute, the U.S.

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