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Queensland Fruit Fly Strategy Blog #3 – take action NOW!

Queensland Fruit Fly Strategy Blog #3 – take action NOW!

8 August 2021 | Gardening tips, QLD Fruit Fly

Queensland Fruit Fly Strategy Blog #3 – take action NOW! There are 2 things to do right now beginning in the first week of August: Put out your pheromone lures to monitor when Queensland Fruit Fly arrives in your garden. The lures, if you use the Wild May...
Kaolin clay: part of the solution to controlling Queensland Fruit Fly

Kaolin clay: part of the solution to controlling Queensland Fruit Fly

1 August 2021 | Fruit trees, Gardening tips, QLD Fruit Fly, Videos

Kaolin clay: part of the solution to controlling Queensland Fruit FlyAug 1, 2021 | Fruit trees, Gardening tips, QLD Fruit Fly Originally used on fruit trees to prevent sunburn on fruit, you may know kaolin clay is tremendously beneficial as an organic deterrent to...
Queensland Fruit Fly strategy #2 – 5 simple steps

Queensland Fruit Fly strategy #2 – 5 simple steps

13 June 2021 | Fruit trees, Gardening tips, QLD Fruit Fly | 2 comments

Queensland Fruit Fly strategy #2 – 5 simple steps Sustainable Macleod’s 5 simple steps Hang pheronome lures (Ecolures) in trees from May onward to monitor male Queensland Fruit Fly and to kill those males overwintering in evergreen trees, especially lemon...
Queensland Fruit Fly strategy #1 – start right now!

Queensland Fruit Fly strategy #1 – start right now!

12 June 2021 | Fruit trees, Gardening tips, QLD Fruit Fly | 2 comments

Queensland Fruit Fly Strategy #1 – Start right now! Sustainable Macleod is developing a simple and effective Queensland Fruit Fly Strategy for Banyule. We will be rolling it out in a series of blogs and seminars and collecting data to help keep track of results....
Microwave your Queensland Fruit Fly infected fruit

Microwave your Queensland Fruit Fly infected fruit

10 January 2021 | Fruit trees, Gardening tips, QLD Fruit Fly

Microwave your Queensland Fruit Fly infected fruit At the Sustainable Macleod Community Garden we have been experimenting with destroying fruit fly by microwaving bowls of infected fruit for 10 minutes on high. Soft patches or sting marks on the skin indicate the...
Queensland Fruit Fly strategy #1 – start right now!

Sustainable Macleod blitzing fruit fly!

8 November 2020 | Fruit trees, Gardening tips, News, QLD Fruit Fly

Sustainable Macleod blitzing fruit fly! Sustainable Macleod has made a bulk buy of Fruit Fly Eco-lures; these are sure to make a tremendous impact on the Queensland Fruit Fly which arrived in Macleod from the Yarra Valley last summer. Orders for 105 lures have been...
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