Showcase 2: Baits and lures help farmers get the upper hand on fruit flies.

Abstract

This series of two-page briefs highlights some of the new technologies and processes available, in order to inspire practitioners and policy-makers to put them to use. This one outlines how cheap home-made fruit fly traps, concoctions of banana and raw sugar, and home-made or locally manufactured lures (blocks of wood soaked in a solution that attracts and kills male flies) help farmers in India and Pakistan combat fruit flies.

For further information on the research described in this Showcase, see also this output.

Citation

2 pp.

Showcase 2: Baits and lures help farmers get the upper hand on fruit flies.

Published 1 January 2008