Morphologically, the fruit fly pest tephritid look weak. However, until now this fruit fly is a pest of fruit most feared by farmers around the world, including Aceh.
Tephritid fruit fly pest has several biological properties that make it capable of developing into a great figure of pests. Firstly, the adaptability of fruit flies is great enough. Second, the adaptability of fruit flies, coupled with high mobility (for the fruit fly has wings) that enable it to wade through large distances to find suitable habitat. Third, many species of fruit flies tephritid is polifaga. The nature of this course provides the advantages of these species to always get the feed (the host). If the host is not available, then the alternative host ready to act as feed.
Furthermore, the human element into the cause of the fruit fly is always high that tends to be difficult to control. Knowledge of the biology of the fruit fly pest tephritid still quite poorly understood by the public. As a result they do not understand well the ability to breed fruit flies in nature. For example, the rotten fruits that fall to the ground is one of the media (helper) last instar larvae to enter the soil, ground berpupa in darkness, and ready to emerge into a new fruit fly in time.
Any properties BioEkologi tephritid fruit fly pests that need to be recognized as a basic strategy fruit fly control most efficient and effective.