FRUIT FLY – Public Enemy No.1

Suggested Organic Strategies:

• Increase habitats for predators, such as ants, ground beetles, spiders and birds.

• Clean up all infected fruit as soon as possible.  To destroy the maggots, immerse fruit in water or even better place in a pot, bring to the boil and then feed it to poultry, or try placing fruit in a sealed, black plastic bag in the sun.

• Use your orchard as a poultry forage area, to aid fruit fly control.

• Select early fruiting trees, to miss the onslaught of fruit fly.

• Grow dwarf varieties or keep trees small.

Handy Hint: The tiny flies that hover around the fruit bowl are fungal gnats, not fruit flies.

More information on organic fruit fly control…..

Suggested Products

Eco-Naturalure

Cloth Fruit Bags

Exclusion Bags

Fruit Fly Kit

Fruit Sleeve

PestGuard Cover

Plant Guard

Fruit Fly Trap

Wild May Fruit Fly Attractant

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