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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Tephritoidea » Fruit Flies (Tephritidae) » Trypetinae » Carpomyini » Carpomyina » Rhagoletis » Apple Maggot Fly (Rhagoletis pomonella)
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Fruit Fly? - Rhagoletis pomonella - male
Copyright © 2010 JC Jones

Fruit Fly? - Rhagoletis pomonella - Male
Spiderweb, Aiken County, South Carolina, USA
October 28, 2010
Size: ~4 -5mm BL
Attracted to light.

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Fruit Fly? - Rhagoletis pomonella - male Fruit Fly? - Rhagoletis pomonella - male
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Contributed by JC Jones on 28 October, 2010 - 11:08pm
Last updated 27 August, 2018 - 9:33pm

Moved
Moved from Rhagoletis.
… JC Jones, 26 March, 2012 - 8:38am login or register to post comments

R. pomonella…
Fits the description for this species.

See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 27 February, 2012 - 8:20pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies. Probably R. pomonella.
… John F. Carr, 30 October, 2010 - 6:56pm login or register to post comments

I think you're good to genus
But I'm not very familiar with these fruit flies. To me, it looks like:


Is yours associated with any sort of tree or plant? (I'm guessing that's a mystery, since the fly came to light.)
… Ron Hemberger, 29 October, 2010 - 12:55am login or register to post comments

 
Ron..
Correct on your assumption on the tree or plant. The closest thing to a fruit tree I have are some Japanese Flowering Apricots (Prunus mume).
A nearby neighbor has a pear tree and a plum tree and another, about a half mile south of me, has grape vines and that's the extent of my knowledge of what fruit trees others in this area may have.

I had looked at the same image you linked to and noticed the comment that the blueberry maggot fly looks very similar to the apple maggot fly.

It's possible that this guy/gal is a stray blown in by the fairly strong southerly winds we had ahead of the cold front that passed thru yesterday.

I have had the lights on almost every night since March and this is the first fly like this I have seen here, at the lights or otherwise.
… JC Jones, 29 October, 2010 - 9:36am login or register to post comments

 
Good info for the experts.
Hope you get a species ID on this one, JC
… Ron Hemberger, 29 October, 2010 - 9:58am login or register to post comments

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