Queensland Fruit Fly Growers Update (September 2019)
It is spring and fruit fly’s on the move
Pest fruit flies, such as the Queensland Fruit Fly (QFF) cause significant damage to fruit grown in home gardens, feral and untended fruiting plants and commercial orchards. This damage adversely impacts the consumption of fresh produce, returns from […]
Queensland Fruit Fly Growers Update (August 2019)
Winter control of Queensland Fruit Fly
Winter control of Queensland Fruit Fly (QFF) requires the placement of traps and baits in places where fruit fly are overwintering. The most common overwintering sites are lemon trees (or loquats and other dense evergreen trees) situated close to a heat source, such as a winter […]
Queensland Fruit Fly Growers Update (July 2019)
Winter and the Queensland Fruit Fly – July 2019
Despite winter, sizable numbers of Queensland Fruit Fly (QFF) adults could still be alive in warm refuges such as lemon trees near houses. These are the flies that will start the QFF population explosion next spring. Now that it is cold in the Goulburn Murray Valley (GMV), […]
Queensland Fruit Fly Growers Update (June 2019)
Autumn Situation
Comparison with late autumn 2018 trap captures show that, for the same four weeks in April – May 2018, the total number of Queensland Fruit Fly (QFF) caught was 1,411 (from about 310 traps) as opposed to the same period in 2019 with only 726 flies trapped (from about 350 traps). It is likely […]
Queensland Fruit Fly Growers Update (May 2019)
May is the time for post harvest hygiene
During the first two weeks of April 2019, a total of 389 flies were trapped in the 375 traps deployed in the Goulburn Murray Valley (GMV) giving an average of 1.03 flies per trap per week (FTW). There were 253 flies (1.00 FTW) found […]
Queensland Fruit Fly Growers Update (April 2019)
Fruit fly trapping
Queensland Fruit Fly (QFF) numbers may start increasing in rural areas from March onwards so it is important to check traps and fruit for signs of QFF.
Current hot spots
If your commercial orchard is close to the below urban areas which are, at present, registering high QFF populations, you should […]
Queensland Fruit Fly Growers Update (March 2019)
Fruit fly trapping
Queensland Fruit Fly (QFF) numbers may start increasing in rural areas from March onwards so it is important to check traps and fruit for signs of QFF.
Current hot spots
If your commercial orchard is close to the below urban areas which are, at present, registering high QFF populations, you should […]
Queensland Fruit Fly Growers Update (February 2019)
Fruit fly trapping
During the first two weeks of January 2019 between 310 and 352 traps were inspected with the number of flies trapped ranging from 159 (from 310 traps) to 201 (from 352 traps). These numbers are down on the previous month. Proactive control measures undertaken by growers and the community […]
Queensland Fruit Fly Growers Update (January 2019)
If one adult female mates with one adult male she can lay up to 2,000 eggs in her lifetime, which is about 2 months in the warm weather. From these eggs she could produce 800 mature adult QFF of which approximatively half are female. If conditions are ideal, these 400 females are again ready to […]