olive fruit fly
olive fruit fly noun: synonym of olive fly (Bactrocera oleae).
Noun
olive fruit fly (plural olive fruit flies)
- Synonym of olive fly (Bactrocera oleae).
- Evidence from Drosophila, screwworm flies, olive fruit flies and fish all points to genetic adaptation to captivity involving rare alleles, deleterious in the wild and partially recessive there (Frankham 2008).2009, Richard Frankham, “Genetic Architecture of Reproductive Fitness and its Consequences”, in Julius van der Werf, Hans-Ulrich Graser, Richard Frankham, Cedric Gondro, editors, Adaptation and...
- According to the University of California’s Agriculture and Natural Resources department, the olive fruit fly (bactrocera oleae) poses not only a severe economic threat for the state’s cutting edge olive oil industry, but any one, individual fruit bearing ornamental olive tree, untreated on a...2013 November 21, Frances Rivetti, “Olive harvest and the battle against fruit flies”, in Petaluma Argus-Courier, page C1
- Synonyms:
- olive fly
Synonyms of olive fruit fly
Forms of olive fruit fly
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Questions about olive fruit fly
- What does olive fruit fly mean?
- Olive fruit fly means synonym of olive fly (Bactrocera oleae).
- What part of speech is olive fruit fly?
- Olive fruit fly is a noun.
- What is the plural of olive fruit fly?
- The plural of olive fruit fly is olive fruit flies.
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