Fruit fly

Fruit fly

As I was driving to my piano concert I saw a sign saying  ‘Beware fruit flies invasion.’ How are fruit flies  dangerous?

Fruit flies can be dangerous because it can lay maggots in fruit. Most specially fruits with seeds like peaches, tomatoes, apples and many more.  If you eat the fruit that has been envied with fruit flies you will get a disease. And did you know that they have been a problem before because they've already been here 12 times?

If there was no biosecurity there would be an invasion of unwanted pests, insects and plants. Fruit flies can affect our economy because we are the best producers of fruit, vegetables and dairy in the world. If our fruits get infested with fruit flies our economy will go down and we will lose a lot of money.

The government is trying to eradicate all the fruit flies using a spray. In the spray they use a high toxic liquid called befipronil an insecticide. They spray the fruit trees with this insecticide to kill fruit flies. And this is only done in zone A area. For the rest of the places they use a bait.

By:Mikayla