Koraleigh Fruit fly News

Attached is a brief newsletter about Queensland Fruit Fly. If you have any questions, please ask and we’ll do our best to answer them. Or if we can’t help, we’ll find someone who can! If you are interested in the latest news from Fruit Fly Murray Valley (formerly Greater Sunraysia Pest Free Area), click on…

Please find attached information regarding a Queensland Fruit Fly workshop to be held next Monday 15th August at Koraleigh Hall.   We encourage all ratepayers to consider attending if they would like assistance to manage fruit fly. If you are interested, but the day and time does not suit, please let us know as we…

Just a reminder that it is time to refresh your QFF traps as the weather is warming up and the Queensland Fruit Fly is on the move. Below is a snapshot from the Greater Sunraysia Pest Free Area Facebook page showing that QFF maggots have already been found in loquats (last Friday). BKIT has traps…

Please find attached a copy of an article from the Sunraysia Daily last Saturday. Fruit fly maggots have been found in loquats in an orchard in Cardross (near Mildura) triggering an alert for everyone to inspect fruit if you have a loquat tree, and to get your QFF traps refilled in an effort to protect…

Please find attached some information from Greater Sunraysia Pest Free Area Committee that may be of interest. The DPI have detected Queensland Fruit Fly as close as Nyah on 30 August 2018. Please do not hesitate to contact the BKIT office if you would like any information or assistance regarding QFF.

For those of you who have purchased Bio-Trap Fruit Fly Traps it is time to get them refilled if you haven’t done so in the last couple of weeks. Small numbers of fruit fly were detected in our area during September, but we have not had any detected by DPI Vic since 1st September 2017,…

Please find attached a ‘Backyard jobs for Spring’ flyer to assist with your Queensland Fruit Fly control. Unfortunately, despite cold conditions over winter there have been detections of fruit fly in the Koraleigh area by the DPI as recently as 1st September. While these have been just single fly detections in some of their traps,…

Please find attached a Fruit Fly Monitoring sheet that can be used to track the presence of fruit fly on your property. Should you be interested in recording numbers of fruit fly you catch in your traps, please print off a copy of the attached sheet. The sheet also has a bit of useful information…

While we don’t qualify for the free traps being issued to urban households in the Greater Sunraysia Pest Free Area, this article may be of interest. Remember that the BKIT has Queensland Fruit Fly traps and refills available at very competitive prices – so please stop in a pick up a trap or two or…

We are pleased to advise that BKIT has Bio-Trap Fruit Fly traps available now. The cost of a complete trap is $7.50 (incl. GST). The attractant gel in the trap will last up to 3 months and now is an ideal time to put out traps as host fruit becomes less available to Fruit Flies…