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Vinegar fly maggots feed on rotting berries
Vinegar fly maggots feed on rotting berries
Photo credit: Peter Magarey
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  • 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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Vinegar fly is often seen flying around rotting berries in warm humid weather The small Queensland fruit fly is a quarantine pest

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