FLIES
Vinegar fly is often seen flying around rotting berries in warm humid weather Photo credit: David Madge
- Some small flies are common but cause no major damage; others are rare but quarantine pests
- VINEGAR FLY and its small, white maggot often occur in high numbers when ripe berries split in warm, wet conditions. Maggots feed in rotting berries. The adults spreas fruit-rotting moulds. They are sometimes confused with fruit flies.
- FRUIT FLIES are quarantine pests found in Australia but not in New Zealand.
- MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT FLY occurs in Western Australia and may feed on grapes.
- QUEENSLAND FRUIT FLY rarely attacks grapes.
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