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Photodye International, Inc.

Nicanor J Liquido

Roy T Cunningham

James R Heitz

Robert A Flath

Grant T McQuate

John P Spencer

Compositions and combinations of alpha-ionol and cade oil are effective attractants for Bactrocera latifrons (Hendel) fruit flies. By attracting adult males to field traps or baits, the attractants provide a means for detecting, surveying, monitoring, and controlling this agricultural pest.

Attractants for bactrocera latifrons(Hendel)

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.

Pesticide composition and method for controlling the oriental fruit fly

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Nicanor J Liquido