Parts of Australia's fruit and vegetable industry are under threat, with Queensland University of Technology (QUT) scientists racing to find new ways to control a major horticultural pest before ...

To date, no further fruit flies have been found. After a single male Queensland fruit fly was found in one of the Ministry’s surveillance traps on 21 January 2014, restrictions on the movement of ...

Authorities have lifted a months-long quarantine in place to eradicate an invasive fruit fly discovered in the Thousand Oaks area last year. After initial detections of the Queensland fruit fly, ...

THE country's Ministry for Primary Industries says the larvae were found in fruit collected from two properties near the area close to the inner Auckland suburb of Grey Lynn, where they were first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fruit and vegetables will be subject to quarantine restrictions in Zone A (red) and Zone B (orange) at Mount Roskill in Auckland.

A biosecurity operation is underway in Auckland after the find of a Queensland fruit fly. The male fruit fly was in a surveillance trap and identified this morning in Mt Roskill. Legal restrictions ...