Around Wyoming
Conditions vary across the state. Choose your city below, then describe what’s happening around your home or business.
← All locations
Local fruit fly information
Fruit Fly control in Wyoming
Learn what to look for around your property, explore your city, and ask about an inspection or a quote.
Fruit Flies in Wyoming: what to know
What to note
Where you see fruit flies, how long it has been going on, and anything you’ve already tried are the most useful details to mention.
A useful next step
Ask about an inspection, what treatment would involve, and whether follow-up visits are included. You don’t need to identify the problem yourself before getting in touch.
Local research
Fruit Flies in Wyoming: what the public record shows
Before you compare quotes, it helps to know which fruit flies actually live in Wyoming, when they are busiest, and what the state figures look like. Everything below links to the agency or university page it came from.
Fremont, Goshen, Laramie and Platte counties
Wyoming counties with confirmed spotted wing drosophila
Outside those counties, a Wyoming fruit fly problem is almost certainly an indoor breeding site rather than something that flew in from a crop.
Wyoming Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey, University of WyomingNot actively surveyed by CAPS; reported by individual growers and confirmed by the University of Wyoming Extension entomologist
How Wyoming detections were made
There is no statewide trapping program, so grower and homeowner reports are how new detections happen.
Wyoming Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey, University of WyomingConsumer Health Services inspects thousands of licensed food establishments statewide under the Wyoming Food Safety Rule (2012)
Wyoming commercial kitchen oversight
Commercial kitchens, bars and drains are where Wyoming's fruit fly pressure actually concentrates, since the state grows almost no fruit.
Wyoming Department of AgricultureWhen fruit flies are busiest in Wyoming
Indoor driven and largely aseasonal: with no significant fruit crop and a short, dry outdoor season, Wyoming fruit fly problems track fermenting material inside rather than the harvest calendar.
The Wyoming Department of Agriculture's Consumer Health Services Division oversees the safety of the state's food supply and inspects licensed food establishments using a HACCP approach. University of Wyoming CAPS notes that spotted wing drosophila attacks healthy ripening fruit as well as damaged or split fruit, and that a female can lay several hundred eggs in her lifetime.
Rules that apply in Wyoming
For context, nationally
- 8 to 10 days egg to adult — Life cycle length. University of Maryland Extension
- As few as 8 days — Fastest life cycle under optimum conditions. Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
Sources: Wyoming Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey, University of Wyoming; Wyoming Department of Agriculture; University of Maryland Extension; Texas A&M AgriLife Extension. Figures are quoted as the source prints them. How we check our sources
Explore Wyoming cities
Casper
Semi-Arid Continental · suburban setting
Read the local guide →
Cheyenne
Semi-Arid Continental · suburban setting
Read the local guide →
Evanston
Semi-Arid Continental · rural setting
Read the local guide →
Gillette
Semi-Arid Continental · rural setting
Read the local guide →
Jackson
Warm Summer Continental · rural setting
Read the local guide →
Laramie
Semi-Arid Continental · suburban setting
Read the local guide →
Rock Springs
Semi-Arid Continental · rural setting
Read the local guide →
Sheridan
Semi-Arid Continental · rural setting
Read the local guide →
Cody
Semi-Arid Continental · rural setting
Read the local guide →