Musk Melon Farmers: Are Fruit Flies Ruining Your Harvest?

Introducing Makshikari, your secret weapon against the notorious fruit fly. These pesky insects, including the Oriental fruit fly and Melon fly, can devastate your musk melon crop (alongside other fruits and vegetables!) causing significant financial losses.

The Devastating Impact of Fruit Flies

• Oriental fruit flies are relentless, attacking mangoes, papayas, guava, and a host of other crops.
• Melon flies specifically target musk melons, cucumbers, bitter gourd, and more – leading to potential 75% yield losses!

Why Traditional Pest Control Methods Often Fail

Fruit flies are incredibly adaptable, making pesticides, netting, and even natural predators less effective. Their rapid lifecycle and reproduction abilities can easily overwhelm these control methods.

Makshikari: Your Sustainable Solution for Fruit Fly Control

Makshikari offers a safe and effective way to maximize your yields with pheromone-based trapping.

Understanding The Frighteningly Fast Fruit Fly Life Cycle

Fruit flies can quickly overwhelm your crops due to their rapid lifecycle:

• Eggs: A single female can lay hundreds or even thousands of eggs directly on your precious fruits. These eggs hatch within a day!
• Larvae: The hatched larvae, tiny maggots, burrow into the fruit and feast for just a few days.
• Pupae: After feeding, the larvae pupate, forming a protective shell where they transform into adults.
• Adults: The adult flies emerge ready to mate and lay their own eggs within days.

The Exponential Threat: This rapid cycle leads to exploding populations, especially in ideal farm conditions.

Makshikari: Your Pheromone-Based Fruit Fly Solution

Makshikari disrupts the fruit fly's mating cycle, naturally curbing their population.

• How it works: Traps release pheromones that attract male flies, trapping them and preventing them from reproducing.
• Benefits: Reduces or eliminates the need for pesticides, promotes healthy crops, and is easy to use.
• Coverage: One trap covers 5000 square feet – approximately 15 traps per acre.

Fruit Fly Control for All – From Farms to Gardens

Makshikari works effectively in commercial musk melon fields, kitchen gardens, and polyhouses.

• Kitchen gardens: Install one trap monthly for year-round protection.
• Polyhouses: Start with one trap for monitoring, increasing as needed.

Easy Installation: Your Makshikari Fruit Fly Trap

1. Prep the Lure: Unwrap the wooden lure (avoid touching it). The pheromone is embedded for slow release.
2. Assemble the Trap: Thread the lure's copper wire through the glass trap's hole and secure the cap.
3. Hang: Hang the traps about 3-4 feet above the ground within your crop.

Let Makshikari protect your valuable musk melons!