Koraleigh Fruit fly News

Did you have trouble with peach leaf curl on your peaches or nectarines last year? If so, you need to treat your trees now to limit damage to your trees for this season. A copper fungicide spray should be applied before budswell and a week later, at budswell. If left untreated, curly leaf is likely…

We are pleased that we have so many locals with traps in place so early this season, and they are certainly showing us that there are plenty of fruit fly still about from last season. The flies that have been trapped are spread across the Koraleigh Irrigation Trust area. If you don’t already have some…

Despite being ‘fruit fly’ free for so long, Koraleigh succumbed to the pest around 2018. Three years of La Nina from 2020 to 2022, saw a rapid increase in numbers of Qfly in our area, affecting home orchards as well as commercial growers. BKIT has been actively involved in assisting locals to trap Qfly, monitor…

BKIT has been very fortunate to have secured funds from Murray River Council to put towards a free ‘Tree Removal Program’. Trees being targetted are Loquats, as they are the first tree to produce fruit as the weather warms up enough for Qfly to start reproducing.

At the end of June 2023, we had recorded a total of 1856 fruit fly in traps througout the BKIT area. The climate was perfect for fruit fly, due to increased humidity and a cooler than usual summer. Fruit fly hate dry heat, and we certainly didn’t have much of that! We have learn’t a…

Having trouble identifying bugs in your Bio Trap? Take a photo on your smart phone (if you have one), and zoom in! We have circled 3 Qfly found in this trap to help you.