"John Savage" wrote in message
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gardenlen writes:
was that the same fruit fly as our tropical fruit fly?

if so this will be a boon for tropical gardeners.

should be no difference between coke and pepsi as far as i know one is
based on orange juice and the other lemon juice. outside of that they
are basically a sugar and caffien drink, nothing exotic in them.

Hi Len. I don't believe there was any suggestion of the Coke lure
being species specific when it comes to fruit flies. With any
luck they'll all dive in! The Coke lure may not be any more
effective than those based on other kitchen ingredients, but the
fact that he took no steps to hinder the flies from escaping
impressed me, because I have closely watched how the flies will
make an enduring attempt to escape from bottle traps fashioned to
have the inverted funnel in their neck. He did have lots of traps
hanging up everywhere, though.

It was either Sydney or Melbourne, I just forget which.

As you'd agree, it's really not the number of flies that get
trapped that you need to be concerned with, it's how many that
manage to get past it!
--
John Savage (my news address is not valid for email)

More than likely NSW and probably the Queensland Fruitfly. We only have the
Medfly over here in WA after a clamp down by the powers to be over the
Queensland fruitfly although there may be the odd one around. The Medfly is
just so prevalent here. I did a lot of reading about this a while back. What
I found was the sugary traps with yeast get both male and female but mostly
male fruitfly. Now traps loaded with stinky poo attract female fruitflies!
Apparently they seek a high protein source before they lay eggs in fruit.
Only thing is you can never have enough traps to lure them all! Never tried
pheremone traps so wondering if a combination of all 3 methods would produce
a better result. Anyway when it comes to the fruit they only need one strike
to each piece to make the whole thing a waste of time.