Last Friday, 10th May, another Queensland fruit fly was found in the current Northcote controlled area. This discovery brings the total to eight, since the 20th February this year.

Despite this eighth find in the area, Biosecurity New Zealand states that it does not mea...

Port Augusta's National Sterile Insect Technology facility now has a second x-ray irradiation machine, meaning they will now be able to produce up to 50 million sterile fruit flies a week.

This will increase the production of sterile Queensland fruit flies, which are th...

Quarantine restrictions that were in place since December 2018 due to a Queensland fruit fly outbreak were lifted on the 30th April. This is a result of a successful eradication program which included the use of Sterile Insect Technology (SIT) and zero tolerance at roa...

A single male fruit fly has been found in Auckland, the seventh discovery in the area since 20th February this year. The latest find is an elderly fly, suggesting that it may be from the same cohort as the earlier discoveries. There is no evidence of a breeding populat...

Fruit fly larvae have been stopped from entering New Zealand, by Biosecurity New Zealand on Monday. Officials found four "live" spotted wing drosophilalarvae on a single orange imported from the United States.

Reacting to this discovery, US citrus imports have temp...

From now until the end of May millions of sterile Queensland fruit flies will be released every week above the Victorian town of Cobram, with the hope that the sterile males will reduce reproduction in the wild-population, and therefore reduce the fruit fly population...

Two more male Queensland fruit fly have been discovered in Northcote in the last 5 days. This brings the total discoveries since the 20th February to six.

Timeline of single male Queensland fruit fly discoveries in Northcote 2019;

• 20th Feb - First discovery of a sing...

Last Friday, 1st March 2019, a third male Queensland fruit fly was found in Northcote. It was found in a surveillance trap less than 300 metres away from where the last fly was found in that area. 

This is the fourth Queensland fruit fly discovered on Auckalnds Nor...

Last Thursday a single male Queensland fruit fly was discovered in a trap in Devonport, a suburb of Auckland. Yesterday, just a week later, a second single male was found in a trap in Northcote, also a suburb of Auckland.

To prevent further spread, an area of Northcote...

A single male Queensland fruit fly was discovered in Devonport, a suburb of Auckland, on Thursday 14th February.

Biosecurity New Zealand has responded by placing legal controls on the movement of fruit and vegetables, and field crews have set additional fruit fly traps...