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The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) uses aerial spray applications of spinosad for the eradication of Mexican fruit fly. The Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) supports this effort by providing pesticide registration, consultation, and environmental monitoring. The following documents provide information on the registration of pesticide products used for this project, DPR’s environmental monitoring program, and other information about spinosad:
- Final results of environmental monitoring (PDF, 1.60 mb)
- Preliminary results of environmental monitoring
- Tenth to thirteenth applications, April 28 to May 31, 2003 (PDF, 1.5 mb)
- Eighth and ninth applications, April 8-10 and April 21-22, 2003 (PDF, 864 kb)
- Sixth and seventh applications, March 18-20 and March 27- 28, 2003 (PDF, 651 kb)
- Fifth application, March 5-6, 2003 (PDF, 28 kb)
- Results from malathion contamination monitoring (PDF, 123 kb)
- Third and fourth applications, February 4-5 and February 18-19, 2003 (PDF, 634 kb)
- Second application, January 21-22, 2003 (PDF, 332 kb)
- First application, January 7-8 and 9-10, 2003 (PDF, 348 kb)
- Environmental monitoring protocol amendment (PDF, 79 kb)
- Environmental monitoring protocol (PDF, 17 kb)
- Spinosad references
- Links to other Mexican Fruit Fly sites
For content questions, contact:
Randy Segawa
Telephone: (916) 324-4137
E-mail: rsegawa@cdpr.ca.gov