Where to get Fruit Fly Wick in Sydney

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Sep 9, 2001, 8:26:19 AM9/9/01

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Hi,
I have stone fruits and guava trees and its fruits are regularly spoilt due
to fruit fly. I have posted some advice sometime back on how to control it
and someone suggest using a fruit fly wick, just wondering where one get it
in syd (west).

Thanks

Willow

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Sep 9, 2001, 9:12:20 AM9/9/01

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Out of curiousity, what do fruit flies look like? I've been looking around
on the web but as yet haven't found any pictures

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Sep 9, 2001, 9:36:33 AM9/9/01

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I have reread my original posting and it ia a bit miss leading, I should
have said that I have asked advised on how to get rid of fruit flies, not I
have given advised on how to get rid of fruit fly.

I have not captured a fruit fly but have seen the effect where the fruit is
spoilt prior to reaching its maturity, or when it reached maturity it is
filled with maggots, so it becomes quite unappetising.

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len brauer

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Sep 9, 2001, 3:19:35 PM9/9/01

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g'day,

the wicks can be bought from produce agencies i don't know if there is
exactly one in your neighbourhood but check in the yellow pages they
will list them. the wicks only work on the males.

i usually hang traps to catch the females as well, the brand of wick
we used was made on the sunshine coast i think it seemed to work
better than the other brand.

i have some fruit fly recipes on this page:

http://hub.dataline.net.au/~gardnlen/hintsNtips.htm

len

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Sep 9, 2001, 3:28:57 PM9/9/01

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here is a link with a fruit fly pic on

http://www.organicdownunder.com/fruit_fly.htm

while you are there you might take the time to look around daves
gardening site, and of course i invite you to look around my gardening
site as well

len

On Sun, 9 Sep 2001 21:12:20 +0800, "Willow"
<nospam...@2000cn.com.au> wrote:

>Out of curiousity, what do fruit flies look like? I've been looking around
>on the web but as yet haven't found any pictures

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Willow

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Sep 10, 2001, 7:57:46 AM9/10/01

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Thanks Len, it aint fruit fly I saw in my garden then.. what I saw was a
small, brown, furry looking fly-like critter on my Mandarin tree (it's
covered in new growth & flower buds, but no fruit as yet)

Any ideas?

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Sep 10, 2001, 2:56:55 PM9/10/01

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might be a helpfull bug hey i'm not real good at bug id.

not sure if fruit fly do any damage to citrus, i was staying at
friends house and he had heaps of f/fly but all his citrus fruit was
perfect.

place a post asking for id of that bug

len

On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 19:57:46 +0800, "Willow"
<nospam...@2000cn.com.au> wrote:

>Thanks Len, it aint fruit fly I saw in my garden then.. what I saw was a
>small, brown, furry looking fly-like critter on my Mandarin tree (it's
>covered in new growth & flower buds, but no fruit as yet)
>
>Any ideas?

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