Stop the spread Essential control measures for activisation include applying protein baits to crop boundaries, untended fruiting trees and crop trees before fruits mature or early in the [...]
Population increase Queensland fruit fly numbers remained higher than normal across the Goulburn Murray Valley during May. Weather conditions including the La Niña weather system and the effects of [...]
Conditions favourable for fruit fly Increased Queensland fruit fly pressure is the result of warmer and wetter weather than usual, together with the presence of more unharvested fruit [...]
Autumn control Unmanaged fruit must be controlled through autumn, as it is the root cause of fruit fly population explosions in spring. Queensland fruit fly are desperate to [...]
Labour shortages The shortage of labour to pick fruit this season is causing many growers to leave excess fruit on their trees or the ground. Although growers are not [...]
Summer conditions ideal for Queensland fruit fly La Niña and the summer rain associated with the weather event has provided ideal conditions for Queensland fruit fly numbers to [...]
Fruit fly outlook Queensland Fruit Fly (Qfly) trap capture rates are expected to continue to increase into January 2021 and follow the same pattern identified since trapping commenced [...]
Fruit fly trapping numbers Trapping data from the Goulburn Murray Valley’s regional trapping grid indicates that the number of Queensland fruit fly (Qfly) trapped across the region has [...]
Weather conditions ideal for fruit fly Queensland Fruit Fly (Qfly) populations vary throughout the year. They also vary from year to year based on the impacts of the weather [...]
Fruit flies are on the move Severe hail storms in areas of the Goulburn Murray Valley (GMV) in the last week of September impacted some growers. Depending on the [...]
