These figures represent regions managed by FFA. Check your farm's traps weekly – post harvest monitoring and control of FF is critical to manage FF populations. Bait weekly – increase to twice a week if you start catching fruit flies…
These figures represent regions managed by FFA. Check your farm's traps weekly – post harvest monitoring and control of FF is critical to manage FF populations. Bait weekly – increase to twice a week if you start catching fruit flies…
These figures represent regions managed by FFA. Check your farm's traps weekly as counts are increasing. Hot weather ahead will accelerate fruit fly development. Bait weekly – increase to twice a week if you start catching fruit flies in your…
Andrew Jessup, an Australian research horticultural entomologist, recently visited Hortgro Science to share his insights on dealing with fruit fly invasion. Jessup spoke to researchers and other industry stakeholders about the importance of monitoring for Bactrocera dorsalis, and why "prevention…
Bactrocera dorsalis (Oriental Fruit Fly) is a quarantine pest of Asian origin capable of infesting various commercial fruit crops (400 recorded hosts). It was previously described as the Invader fruit fly (Bactrocera invadens).
Bactrocera dorsalis (the Oriental Fruit Fly) is a quarantine pest of Asian origin capable of infesting various commercial fruit crops. This pest serves as a major phytosanitary problem for fruit marketing in areas where it is present in South Africa.