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    Fruit fly PROTECT YOUR CROP

    Oct 11, 2020 4 minutes
    WORDS BY BRENT WHITER

    Australia is home to more than 150 native species of fruit fly, but only a few of them pose a threat in the garden.

    There are two main types of fruit fly. The Drosophilidae family, often called the vinegar fly which is the one you see around compost bins and fruit bowls. It’s tiny, between two and four millimetres in length, and can range in colour from pale yellow through to black.

    The other is from the Tephritidae family which includes the two main flies affecting Australia’s backyard gardeners and commercial growers. There’s the Queensland fruit fly (Bactrocera tryoni), which is found on the east coast of Australia and, although it can’t fly too far,

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