Fruit fly prevention in your backyard

Look out for our fruit fly officers and please give them access to your yard so they can:

• put up attract and kill devices (AKDs)
• apply organic bait
• check for signs of fruit fly.

AKDs, or more commonly known as 'traps', are being deployed across residential properties in Riverland outbreak areas. The 3 types of traps are:

• Cera Trap
• Fruition trap
• BioTrap

Up to 20,000 Cera Traps and 2,000 Fruition traps have already been deployed in residential fruit trees in outbreak areas, with a further 2,000 BioTraps to be deployed over the coming weeks.

If you have a trap in your yard, please don't touch it – our fruit fly officers have put it in the best place for it to do its job!

So, what do these traps look like and how do they work?

Cera Trap

The cylinder-shaped Cera Traps are a highly effective method to assist in reducing fruit fly numbers.

Cera Traps contain a unique protein-based organic liquid that is attractive to female and male fruit flies. The smell of the liquid lures the fruit fly into a specially designed trap.

The organic liquid does not contain any pesticides and will continue to work even when many flies have drowned in the liquid.

Fruition trap

The disc-shaped traps are highly effective in attracting Queensland fruit fly through a unique combination of colour, shape and smell, and then trapping them on a sticky surface.

The Fruition traps attract and trap egg-laying female fruit flies.

BioTrap

The 'cup and lid' shaped BioTraps contain a gel that attracts Queensland fruit fly.

BioTraps attract both male and female fruit fly but generally higher numbers of the female are attracted.

These traps are only being deployed on residential properties.

If you are a commercial grower, please register with PIRSA to obtain AKDs that are suitable for your property – see Self-baiting program.

Register now by either:

Email: fruitfly@sa.gov.au
Phone: 1300 666 010.