DETROIT, Mich. — The "most serious pest of cherries in Europe" was found at the Detroit Metro Airport last month, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). During a secondary inspection ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Five pounds of fresh cherries infested with live European cherry fruit fly maggots and pupae were intercepted by U.S. Customs and ...

Paula Wethington is a digital producer at CBS Detroit. She previously held digital content roles at NEWSnet, Gannett/USA Today network and The Monroe News in Michigan. She is a graduate of the ...

Have you ever unpeeled a banana and found tiny flies crawling around it, or had other produce swarmed by insects? You might be experiencing an influx of fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster), which ...

Dealing with a fly infestation at home is annoying. Orange County had one that spanned almost 100 square miles. But officials have announced they’ve won the year-long battle against the oriental fruit ...

A 109-square mile section of Santa Clara County has been placed under quarantine following the detection of two female Mediterranean fruit flies in San Jose, officials said. The Medfly targets more ...

This summer, a small number of invasive Mediterranean fruit flies were detected in San Jose. In response, the state started doing something that might seem strange: releasing millions more fruit flies ...

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Department of Agriculture officials identified European cherry fruit fly maggots and pupae in 5 pounds of cherries traveling at Detroit Metro Airport. The ...

Five pounds of fresh cherries infested with live European cherry fruit fly maggots and pupae were intercepted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. Local customs ...