Why is the cherry fruit fly so harmful?
One reason is that you would not want to eat fruit with a maggot in it! The other reason involves the strict regulations surrounding the sale and the export of commercially grown cherrics.Fruit in the warehouse is inspected rigorously to ensure maggot-free fruit. A commercial cherry grower’s fruit in which a Cherry Fruit Fly Maggot is discovered will be dumped. The rest of that grower’s fruit will be denied entry into the warehouse. In many cases, growers who have a fruit fly maggot found in their fruit would be eliminated from the warehouse and refused entry into other warehouses in the future. If one fruit fly maggot is found inside the warehouse, all of the growers in that warehouse will be expelled from the California market for 5 days. If another fruit fly maggot is found, the warehouse will be expelled from the market for the remainder of the season. If one fruit fly maggot is found the next season, the entire warehouse will be expelled from that market for the season. With as ma
