Throw away garbage and take out recycling frequently. Clean out the bottom of bins when liquid accumulates, wipe down ...

The fruit fly trap is designed to lure the insects into ... and features a glue guard to make sure people or other animals don't inadvertently come into contact with the sticky trap.

Biosecurity Minister Andrew Hoggard has today applauded the efforts of a south Auckland community, the horticulture industry ...

Controls on the movement of fruit and vegetables in the Auckland suburb of Papatoetoe have been lifted after no further ...

Fruit flies are one of those tiny household nuisances that can spiral out of control before you realize it. You may think that you are doing everything correctly, but even the tiniest mistakes are ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that in 2022, around 608,000 people died from malaria, a ...

And since they're attracted to rotting fruit, you should carefully pick your produce at the store to make sure you ... an ACV and dish soap trap caught a lot of the flies and helped fight their ...

It turns out, a maggot's preference for rotting fruit has as much to do with texture as taste. Researchers are looking into ...

“It is vital to our success in keeping fruit fly out of New Zealand,” he says. To date, no additional Oriental fruit flies have been found in surveillance traps, something Inglis says is encouraging. ...

To get rid of fruit flies, you need to eliminate their food sources.

Hang scent lures that smell like apples with your traps to make them more attractive to flies. Hang one trap per 100 fruit (after thinning) in each tree. One or two spheres for small trees and five or ...