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Start Now to Fight Fruit FlyLast modified: September 28, 2009 - 10:24 AM
Nos is the time to kill fruit fly before our fruit and vegetable season gets under way. Tips for control include: Clean up trees and remove old fruit (lemons, grape fruit, navel oranges, mandarins, etc) remove the trees if you no longer want them or cant manage the fruit. Put pots out now to control the fruit fly. Top up the pots every 2 weeks* from now until autumn. Even if you don't have a fruit tree you can still help the fight by placing a pot in your back yard. Fruit Fly will start to become active and begin to lay eggs in Loquats within the next four weeks closely followed by Apricots so we need to control them now before they get a chance to infect our fruit and our vegetables. This is the first step to growing fruit we can actually eat. How to make a Fruit Fly Pot Take a 2 litre milk container, keep the lid on. Cut three holes in the bottle about the size of a 10 cent piece 10 centimetres from the top. Put a string around the lid and hang in a tree in the shade at about 1 - 1 1/2 metres high. Mixture 2 large tablespoons of vegemite 2 large tablespoons on ammonia bleach 2 - 3 drops on insecticide (see your local nursery) Fill the bottle with about 10cm of water in which you dissolved the vegemite, bleach and insecticide *In very hot conditions swap the vegemite/water with fresh orange juice to reduce the capture of blow flies and change the mixture weekly.
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