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natasha compton starts with ...
i am renting a house that has a apricot tree my fruit is nearly ready but i have fruit fly is it to late to do anything about it or not i have pull any fruit i see that has signs of fly i have put two different types of traps up 1 is a coke bottle trap with urine in it (i was told that it works) and i have put zip lock bags with lemon pieces in them please help

Time: 21st November 2007 1:06pm

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B Silver says...
Full marks for being able to pee into a Coke bottle ,alas no use for fruit flies (Apologies to all the Grannies out there) The myth won't die ,no matter that it is evident that nothing in the way of fruit fly is ever caught. Try halving apricot and discarding infested part.

Time: 22nd November 2007 11:08am

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Correy says...
Many people have reported success with Wild May Fruit Fly Controls systems.

Perhaps give these products a try:
http://www.daleysfruit.com.au/Wild-May-Fruit-Fly-Control-System.htm

Here is some forum topics where it is discussed that you may be intereted in
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Fruit Fly Control

Mangoes and Fruit Fly

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Time: 22nd November 2007 1:00pm

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natasha compton says...
i just wanted to let you know that my urine trap is the only onr that worked in one day i have over 20 fruit fly in it. i used female urine as i was told its better than mens. is it to late to spray the tree i was also told to put detergant in the soil under tree does this stop the laver growing

Time: 23rd November 2007 6:14am

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natasha compton says...
thank you for your reply you may laugh but the urine trap has about 50 fruit fly in it now and not one in any of the other traps your idea of cutting the bad fruit in half is a great idea thanks again

Time: 24th November 2007 6:52am

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ben silver says...
Have a look at some pictures on the net that illustrate fruit fly . They are not the little flies attracted to rotten fruit. Or better photograph the fly and post it . I bet you do not have 50 f. fly. Someone has to put a stake thru. the heart of this myth. Female fruit fly ,and it is the female that does the damage, will not enter confined spaces . Millions are spent on f. fly research and if it were so simple no one would bother with all the paraphernalia.

Time: 28th November 2007 9:24am

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Bob says...
Most people catch ferment fly or green tomato fly and call it fruit fly.

Never was and never is.

Bob

Time: 25th January 2008 2:59pm

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Sandra says...
I don't think any of this is going to help me. Last year our old apricot tree produced good fruit in the first 2 weeks then all fruit ripening in the latter stages was rotten with grubs. This year, every apricot (and there were hundreds) were grub affected. I'm at my wits end as to what to spray the tree with and when. This extremely old tree works so hard to give us fruit, but the worms are beating us completely.

Time: 31st December 2008 5:30pm

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mikecowie says...
Sandra, it is unfortunate that you are losing so much fruit to the fruit fly. It sounds as though you have lost the crop this year and it seems to me that you have to prepare for next season. Because the larva inhabit the soil where the rotten fruit fall, to limit the amount turning into fly next year you need to collect the fruit as it falls and then drowning the larva. Your tree probably needs pruning so that it is a size where you are able to net it. Alternatively, you might be able to protect individual branches with flyscreen tubes encircling the branch.

Hope you have better luck next season

Time: 31st December 2008 5:52pm

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John says...
Spray with Lebaycid at 14 day intervals
starting when the fruit is half sized or starts to colour up.

Thats what commercial orchardists do.

Time: 2nd January 2009 12:10pm

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Kert says...
Sad but true.

Time: 3rd January 2009 5:44am

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RolFlor a says...
I remember picking apricots from a tree in the sand dune on Gt.Barrier Island,with my second,or third, girlfriend,naked,both of us.
Mmmm.
Pictures - Click to enlarge

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Time: 3rd January 2009 2:00pm

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ian says...
Lebaycid is the only way of controlling fruit fly in stone fruit. organic fruit fly control is a myth.

Time: 6th January 2009 8:37pm

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HappyEarth says...
Have you tried bagging the fruit Ian? We have a few of our neglected neighbours peaches that overhang our fence bagged - should be ready for eating in a week minus the grubs :)

Rich
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Time: 6th January 2009 9:27pm

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Karin says...
thank you for all the helpful advise on the fruit fly, Iam sorry to say it will not save my small first crop but I will start now to save my next crop

Time: 14th December 2010 8:50pm

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Charles cant spell says...
Just to clarify and condense, if you want to protect your tree organically/pesticide free you need to use exclusion bags or full tree fruit fly net. All organic sprays traps and other gimmicks are gimmicks. Try Netpro as a supplier to get a good price then look around for other quotes. You may not need to net so wait and you will soon find out on the first small crop that should probably be removed anyway so the tree can get better established.

If you dont want to net then yes Lebaycid is what you need to use. However if you do, why are you growing your own fruit ? Fruit is cheap if you are happy with covering it in chemicals so dont grow your own, its not cheaper, and if your doing it for sustainability or urban food resilliance, chemical spraying is not either of those.

Hehe as if I can summarise :).

Time: 14th December 2010 11:01pm

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kert says...
Mostly in agreement ;there is a place for yeast autolysate /spinosid or yeast autolysate/malathion baits . They will give satisfactory control, but less than 100per cent eradication .In addition you must 1) live in an isolated area 2) you do the necessary hygiene of picking up infected fruit and destroying same.

Time: 15th December 2010 10:19am

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