Photodye International, Inc.

John P Spencer

James R Heitz

Roy T Cunningham

Nicanor J Liquido

A composition and method for eradicating or suppressing a population of Mediterranean fruit flies or oriental fruit flies which introduces substantially minimal safety risks to humans, agriculture and nontargeted living creatures includes: providing an insecticide composition which includes at least one photoactive dye which is preferably a mixture of Phloxine B and uranine; causing the composition to be ingested by the targeted fruit fly population by spraying or providing the insecticide at a location where the fruit flies feed; and whereby ingestion of the photoactive dye component of the composition by a Mediterranean fruit fly or oriental fruit fly causes a toxic quantity of photons to penetrate within the body of the fly.

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Honolulu, HI, United States of America

John P Spencer