Pest Species
Ceratitis capitata
Mediterranean Fruit Fly
South Africa
Western Cape
Control Measure
Synopsis
- 1996 Medfly SIT program started.
- 1999 Sterile insect releases began in the Hex River Valley.
- 2003- VIENNA 8 temperature sensitive lethal strain introduced.
- 2003 Privatization of program – SIT Africa (Pty) Ltd. established.
- 2008 Broad Area Wide-IPM program including SIT initiated in Western Cape Province
- 2013 SIT Africa evolved into FruitFly Africa (Pty) Ltd.
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Area-wide management of mediterranean fruit fly with the sterile insect technique in South Africa: New production and management techniques pay dividends
Tags: Africa, Fruit fly, Sterile insect technique (SIT)Venter, J. H., Baard, C. W. L., and Barnes, B. N., AREA-WIDE INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT: Development and Field Application, 2021.
A mass-rearing facility to produce sterile male Mediterranean fruit flies, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann), for a Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) programme in the Hex River Valley in the Western Cape Province started in the late 1990s. The programme was initially underfunded and ...
