Abstract:
problems. In West Africa, the economic importance of the damage caused by mango fruit
flies (Diptera tephritidae) is growing in home garden mango trees as well as in small-scale
and industrial mango orchards. The introduction and pan-African propagation of Bactrocera
invadens, a fly species from Sri Lanka, first discovered in West Africa in 2004 by IITA in Benin, could jeopardise the recent commercial success of the whole mango sector