In 1982 he Is blamed for not spraying farms threatened by the medfly.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Blood Sport] Reference

That was how he had swallowed the medfly which had brought Bosch here.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Ice]

But, at least in experiments, the medfly is proving susceptible to neem.    From Wordnik.com.  [5 Effects on Insects] Reference

If the medfly comes to southern California, who are we to try to eradicate it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Ice]

Bosch rolled down the window, badged him and asked who the head medfly eradicator was.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Ice]

Ely followed his eyes down and saw the medfly floating on the surface of the hot liquid.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Ice]

Fruit flies (including the notorious medfly) are among the most serious horticultural pests.    From Wordnik.com.  [5 Effects on Insects] Reference

Yet contrary to Carson's expectation, wide-area spraying of insecticides has become so rare that the two times this has happened in the past decade, during California's medfly episodes, it has been headline news.    From Wordnik.com.  [Averting A Death Foretold] Reference

Sterile Insect Release, and I have an agricultural question related to the latter: aside from screwworm and medfly, has it been used successfully on other agricultural insect pests?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog] Reference

And how Jerry Brown championed the rights of that illegal immigrant, the medfly, over the evil farmers who just happen to put the food on our tables and form a good portion of the economy of this state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home] Reference

"The Mediterranean fruit fly, or medfly, is just what we need to give the citizens of Italy the solid political foundation they so urgently need," Luciano Illumo, ex-spokesman for newly-elected outgoing Prime Minister Bertolino Bartolomo, said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Front page feed] Reference

But when graduate students Brant Peterson and Emily Hare compared pieces of the genomes of the medfly and the melon fly, two agricultural pests in the family Tephritidae, they noticed that these comparisons looked just like those seen in vertebrates.    From Wordnik.com.  [HHMI News] Reference

I would show up unannounced, watch Jaime teach calculus, chat with Principal Henry Gradillas, check in with other Advanced Placement classes and in the early afternoon call my editor in Washington to say I was chasing down the latest medfly outbreak story, or whatever seemed believable at the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [School Information System] Reference

Transplanting nine Raymond Carver short stories from the Northwest to southern California, Altman and co-writer Frank Barhydt aren't interested in conjuring up familiar media images of L.A. Except for the ominous squadron of medfly-spraying helicopters that opens the film, and the earthquake that closes it, "Short Cuts" could be set in any part of dysfunctional suburban America, wherever families are coming apart, wherever a shared sense of community has given way to randomness, drift and too much drink.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Diorama Of Dysfunction] Reference

"Okay, we seem to have an annual medfly infestation here.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Ice]

"therefore". medfly: Cale, #haskell wants to know all your personal preferences so we can all copy you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet Haskell] Reference