Follow these steps to protect your home grown fruit and vegetables from fruit fly.
Pick your fruit promptly and prune
Promptly pick your ripe fruit and vegetables, and do not move or share fruit and vegetables from your property.
Prune fruit trees so you can pick them more easily next season.
Collect fallen fruit and dispose in your green waste bin
Cleaning up fallen fruit from your garden helps break the fruit fly life cycle. It prevents potential fruit fly maggots from burying into the soil and developing into adult flies.
Put unwanted fruit and vegetables in a green bin, or in a sealed plastic bag and into general waste. If you are in an outbreak area and don't have a green bin, check advice on disposing of fruit and vegetables. Do not compost.
Check your fruit and vegetables regularly for fruit fly
