ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a warm welcome to everybody to the International Symposium on Fruit Flies on behalf of the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS). ARS is one of a number of agencies in USDA and is the principal in-house research arm of the United States Department of Agriculture. In June of 1993, the first review of progress on the Action Plan was held in Beltsville, MD with representatives from ARS, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, and seven State agencies. A list of additional high priority research needs was generated along with additional research recommendations, and the report was published in November of 1993. A limited number of copies of the supplement to the Research Action Plan are available and can be obtained by contacting office.
