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Well-defined Small Fruit: Small; eyes red; body plump, yellowish; wings clear. LARVAE: Maggotlike; live in fruit pulp where they pupate. Larvae and eggs so small they are seldom noticed.
Use small fruit jar; moisten bottom. Put in any soft, juicy, partially crushed fruit; overripe banana excellent. Leave jar in exposed spot;do not allow fruit or bottom of jar to become dry. After fruit flies have swarmed over bait for several days, place jar in cage with animals to be fed. Adults soon emerge and supply pets with food.
There are no extensive or well-defined small fruit areas, exclusive of grapes. Mostly they are found centered about heavily populated regions on the Atlantic seaboard; from New York south to Virginia; in southwestern Michigan, and along the Pacific coast from Washington to California. Scattered plantings of small fruits, particularly strawberries, are to be found throughout most of the South Central states from which early shipments are sent to the northern markets.
The pine cone-like fruit of the pineapple, surmounted by a crown of small leaves, is scarcely known in the markets of temperate zone countries, whereas this delicious fruit in canned form has become widely known in most parts of the world. The unique structure of the fruit and the nature of the plant seem worthy of comment. Botanically the fruit is a syncarp derived from the fusion of a large number of small fruitlets produced in a terminal flower head through which passes the vegetative axis, terminated by a cluster of small, scaly leaves. At maturity, the fruit consists of a combination of fleshy stem, flower parts, and fruit-lets, all fused together to form a large conical or cylindrical multiple fruit, the stem of which is prolonged beyond the apex. The fruit crown, which terminates the stem, contains buds, and, if removed and planted, this crown can be made to grow. No other fruit is known which carries with it a ready means of vegetative propagation.
The plant is a low-growing bush or snruo consisting of a single main axis surrounded by a succession of. clasping clusters of stiff sword-shaped, spiny-edged leaves, from the oase and roots of which slips or suckers are produced to take the place of the central flowering shoot, which dies upon fruiting.
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