And another from Kammy
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Here's some info to show that fruit flies from foreign countries are and have been entering the U.S. via shipments in fruit and olives, as examples. The last one tells what happens in a human infestation - please post what you feel is appropriate:
Fruits in shipments to the U.S. from foreign countries contain their species of fruit flies:
Florida Entomologist, v. 78, n. 3, p. 502
Here's some info on the "Olive Fly" which includes a little about its life-cycle:
The Olive Fly - control measures, life cycle
Parasites.
The fly bites and sucks blood, once the parasite enters the body. ... is very high in much of the third-world tropics-which are regions hardest hit by ...
Parasites.