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Managing Fruit Fly
Area
Freedom: Fruit Fly Exclusion Zone
Fruit Fly
- world's worst fruit pest
Warning to
Travellers
Advice for FFEZ
residents
Map
of Fruit Fly Exclusion Zone
Further
Information
Fruit Fly - World's Worst Fruit
Pest
Queensland fruit flies are wasp-like in appearance and
are about 7mm long; reddish brown with distinct yellow oval markings.
Mediterranean fruit flies are about 6mm long with black and white
markings on the thorax. The wings have characteristic yellowish-brown
bands and spots.
Fruit flies can lay eggs in all types of maturing or ripe fruit,
such as stone fruit, citrus, loquats and quinces, as well as some
vegetables, including tomatoes, capsicums and avacados.
Tiny creamy-white larvae (maggots) hatch from the eggs and burrow
through the fruit as they feed. Infested fruit can look perfectly
good on the outside but is mushy and brown on the inside.
Fallen fruit generally contains fruit fly larvae which burrow
into the ground where they develop into pupae. They emerge from
the ground as adult fruit flies.
There can be five or more generations of fruit fly in a single
growing season.
For more detailed technical information read the NSW Agriculture
Queensland Fruit Fly Agfact.
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