Tephritid Workers Database

Abstract

Tephritid fruit flies are becoming increasingly important, due to the economic importance of many species and their threat to fruit and vegetable production and trade worldwide. Consequently, a tremendous amount of information is made available each year: development of new technologies, new information on their biology and ecology; new control methods made available, new species identified, new outbreaks recorded and new operational control programmes launched. Because things are evolving so rapidly in this field, it is of utmost importance to develop a site that collects and shares this information allowing each Tephritid fruit fly worker worldwide to keep up-to-date on the most recent developments.