Introduction
Fruits and vegetables grown in Hawaii are subject to
federal quarantine regulations because of four exotic
tephritid fruit flies—Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis
capitata (Wiedemann), oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera
dorsalis (Hendel), and melon fly, B. curcurbitae (Coquillet)
and solanaceous fruit fly, B. latifrons (Hendel)
(Diptera: Tephritidae)—and other pests. Quarantine
treatments such as heat, cold, irradiation, and fumigation
disinfest host commodities of insect pests before
they are exported to the US mainland where the pests do
not occur. Hawaii has approved quarantine treatments
for 14 different tropical fruits and five vegetables