Cherry and Black Cherry Fruit Fly

Abstract

Two native tephritid flies feed on cultivated cherries in the eastern United States and eastern Canada, the cherry fruit fly, R. cingulata, and the black cherry fruit fly, R. fausta. The range of the cherry fruit fly (CFF) includes most of eastern North America. The black cherry fruit fly (BCFF) has a more northern distribution than the CFF and exists in eastern as well as western North America.