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In 1994, a $71 million federal eradication plan began after the discovery of the crop-destroying Mediterranean fruit fly.
NASTY BUG THREATENS SOUTHLAND AGRICULTURE by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Entomologists also used the technique to clear California citrus groves of the invasive Mediterranean fruit fly and to eradicate a livestock parasite, the New World screw-worm fly, from North and Central America.
Don't let the bugs bite: can genetic engineering defeat diseases ... by Harder, Ben / Science News
SIT has been successful in controlling the Mediterranean fruit fly, the melon fly and in the eradication of the New World Screwworm.
UN agencies battle tsetse ... and rural poverty. (Working Together) by Reinhardt, Erika / UN Chronicle
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