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olive flies

olive flies is the plural of olive fly.

Meaning of olive fly

Noun

olive fly (plural olive flies)

  1. A fruit fly of species Bactrocera oleae.
    • This included work on 3 species of Psyttalia and on Tetrastichus giffardii by S. Mohamed. Identifications were provided for biocontrol programs on olive fly, and we made several attempts to collect more olive fly parasitoids in Kenya.2022 September 6 (last accessed), United States Department of Agriculture, “Archived copy”, in AFRICAN TEPHRITIDAE: INVASIVE SPECIES THREATENING U.S. FRUIT & VEGETABLE PRODUCTS, archived from the...
    Synonyms:
    olive fruit fly

Questions about olive flies

What is olive flies the plural of?
Olive flies is the plural of olive fly.

Words near olive flies in the dictionary

  1. olive burgers
  2. olive crown
  3. olive crowns
  4. olive drab
  5. olive drabs
  6. olive flies
  7. olive flounder
  8. olive flounders
  9. olive fly
  10. olive fruit flies
  11. olive fruit fly

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