Fruit Flys
 

Does anyone know of an effective way to guard against fruit flys on peaches and
plums. Each year I have been using Ortho Malathion 50Plus mixed according to
directions on the container but it never does the job. Last year, I sprayed
them practically every day and still they came.

Thanks in advance
Bill

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g'day bill,

i garden natural/organic and use variuos traps and detterants all on
my web site on my remedies page, my best part of the program is the
fruit fly wick which attracts and kills the male f/f.

but when you are trying to get fruit fly into control you husbandry
around the trees must be good all and any f/f damaged fruit must be
destroyed not mulched or buryed on site, heat destrys the larva so one
method is to put dmaged fruit into a black plastic bag and hang it on
the clothes line where it can get full sun to cook the damaged fruit
then you can mulch it or bury it, any missed fruit will just help the
f/f prolificate.

we're going more into citrus now as we not only have fruit fly to
guard against but we have at least 4 sorts of native birds and fruit
bats, all way too much work for the sweet fruit.

len

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"len gardener" wrote in message
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g'day bill,

i garden natural/organic and use variuos traps and detterants all on
my web site on my remedies page, my best part of the program is the
fruit fly wick which attracts and kills the male f/f.

but when you are trying to get fruit fly into control you husbandry
around the trees must be good all and any f/f damaged fruit must be
destroyed not mulched or buryed on site, heat destrys the larva so one
method is to put dmaged fruit into a black plastic bag and hang it on
the clothes line where it can get full sun to cook the damaged fruit
then you can mulch it or bury it, any missed fruit will just help the
f/f prolificate.

we're going more into citrus now as we not only have fruit fly to
guard against but we have at least 4 sorts of native birds and fruit
bats, all way too much work for the sweet fruit.

len

snipped
--
happy gardening
'it works for me it could work for you,'

"in the end ya' gotta do what ya' gotta do" but consider others and the
environment
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~gardenlen1/

my e/mail addies have spam filters you should know what to delete before you
send.


Thanks for the info. I'll try fly traps
Bill