Fruit flies flee paradise.(Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center) From: Agricultural Research | Date: February 1, 2004| Author: Kaplan, J. Kim | COPYRIGHT 2004 U.S. Government Printing Office. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

When Dennis Gonsalves was growing up in Hawaii in the 1950s, eating guavas and mangos from the tree was a regular treat. But you had to be good at picking around the fruit fly damage to eat just the good parts; you could hardly ever find a perfect fruit, no matter how recently it had fallen from the tree, he remembers.

"But my father used to tell me how it wasn't that way when he was growing up. Then, fruit hardly ever had fruit fly damage, and everybody counted on eatin...