Provided by Dr. Marion Fuller
Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS)
Report Dated 08/27/98
Fly count: The total count is stable at 134. The first fly was detected on July 9th. The last fly was trapped August 10th.
Treatment: Ground crews continue to treat buffered areas around sensitive sites. The seventh aerial bait treatment is scheduled for Saturday, August 29, 1998, to begin at first light, pending favorable weather conditions.
Traps: 4523 traps have been deployed in a 207 square mile survey area: 3505 Jackson, 265 McPhail, and 753 yellow panel traps (These figures are the latest provided, for August 24).
Environmental Monitoring: The following results complete the data set from the fifth treatment:
All samples were BDL for malathion.
The Method Dection Limit (MDL) and Practical Quantitation Limit (PQL) remain unchanged at 0.1ppb and 0.3 ppb respectively for both malathion and malaoxon.
This completes our data set for the fifth treatment.
The following malathion results are from samples collected 8/21/98 prior to the sixth aerial bait treatment:
The Method Dection Limit (MDL) and Practical Quantitation Limit (PQL)remain unchanged at 0.1ppb and 0.3 ppb respectively for both malathion and malaoxon.
Post treatment samples are pending.
Drift card samples from the same treatment event:
Health Monitoring: No report
FDACS - Division of Plant Industy:
Mediterranean fruit fly information
USDA APHIS: Mediterranean fruit fly information
UF/IFAS Fact Sheet ENY-809:
The Mediterranean Fruit Fly
UF/IFAS Fact Sheet ENY-626:
Mediterranean Fruit Fly: What Floridians Need To Know