Maggot

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• Sorensen Dated 9/90 Placed on the Web 4/95 by the Department of Entomology, NCSU The Blueberry Maggot Rhagoletis mendax Curran; Diptera: Tephritidae The blueberry maggot is the most serious insect pest of cultivated blueberries in North Carolina.
• Pepper maggot is a sporadic pest of peppers along the Atlantic coast, Indiana, and Missouri.
• The apple maggot is a native pest that fed on the fruit of hawthorn and juneberries.
• For apple lovers, chemical control is unfortunately a necessity once apple maggot is present in an orchard.
• The apple maggot is closely related to the walnut husk fly and cherry fruit fly.

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