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These expert-backed tips from an entomologist will help banish fruit flies and keep your kitchen pest-free for good.

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“To date, no other Oriental fruit flies have been found in surveillance traps, which is very encouraging. “We’ll continue to regularly check fruit fly traps, and specialist staff in our ...

During the last century, biologists have extensively studied Drosophila melanogaster, the common household fruit fly. It's become one of the most popular model organisms, but not because ...

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“Our staff have been out and about putting in extra fruit fly traps and upping checks of them, collecting fruit samples for checking at our mobile laboratory, and providing information to residents ...

“We have placed more than 100 extra traps in the area, and checking of all of them has not found any signs of other fruit flies so far,” Inglis said. “Specialist staff in our mobile ...

A single male fruit fly found in the Hatea Drive area of Whangārei sparked a major biosecurity operation in 2014. A network of surveillance traps across the region are being checked by ...