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Flies still enjoying the fruits of Daw Park
Australia
Sunday 06 April 2008
A fruit fly eradication program is not working as well as hoped at Daw Park and surrounding suburbs of Adelaide's south.
Geoff Raven from the Primary Industries department says an outbreak at Ceduna on SA's west coast has been contained, but not the one in Adelaide's south.
He says officers are finding plenty of fruit flies in traps around Daw Park.
A release of sterile flies to mate with others has not helped, so authorities may need to rethink their strategy.
Mr Raven says a 1.5-kilometre exclusion zone will stay in place.
"Daw Park's still an issue and we really do require people to remain vigilant and not move fruit and vegetables out of that quarantined zone and be on the lookout for any unusual things within any backyard fruit that they've got on the trees at the moment," he said.
Geoff Raven from the Primary Industries department says an outbreak at Ceduna on SA's west coast has been contained, but not the one in Adelaide's south.
He says officers are finding plenty of fruit flies in traps around Daw Park.
A release of sterile flies to mate with others has not helped, so authorities may need to rethink their strategy.
Mr Raven says a 1.5-kilometre exclusion zone will stay in place.
"Daw Park's still an issue and we really do require people to remain vigilant and not move fruit and vegetables out of that quarantined zone and be on the lookout for any unusual things within any backyard fruit that they've got on the trees at the moment," he said.
