Queensland Fruit Fly Grower’s Update (November 2021)
Rising pressure Fruit fly populations are in the middle of the spring peak. These flies are overwintering adults that have left their winter refuges in search of mates and fruit to infest. Many of these adults have already [...]
Queensland Fruit Fly Grower’s Update (October 2021)
A regional snapshot Fruit fly trapping rates spiked in late August and early September reflecting the emergence of adult fruit fly from their winter refuges. The weather outlook for October in the Goulburn Murray Valley favours the survival [...]
Queensland Fruit Fly Growers Update (July 2021)
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 season to reduce the fruit fly load in and near [...]
Queensland Fruit Fly Growers Update (June 2021)
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 more unharvested and fallen fruit than usual contributed to this [...]
Queensland Fruit Fly Growers Update (May 2021)
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 still on-tree or fallen to the ground. The La Niña [...]
Queensland Fruit Fly Growers Update (April 2021)
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 find fruit to lay the last of their season’s eggs [...]