Queensland Fruit Fly Protecting Fruit - Our Organic Method
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- Queensland Fruit Fly Protecting Fruit - Our Organic Method
Hi Folks. Protecting fruit from fruit fly attack is vital if you want any harvest at all from your crops in some areas. In this clip I share with you the method we've found to be the most effective & it's organic to boot.
Hope the clip helps some & that your pest free gardens are booming. 😉
Cheers all,
Rob
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And, also the cherry tomatoes are too acidic - that's my guess anyway Rob, because I've seen many signs of stung cherry toms with skins healed over and no maggot development inside. I agree exclusion is really the best way - I love your hoop house mate I have to build one of them one day! Cheers :)
Thanks a lot for this video. I live in Africa and have recently had all my cucumbers and zucchini’s decimated. Found a little red fly injecting the small fruit which look to be very similar to your QLD fruit fly. I recently started exclusion using some cut outs from an old mosquito net. Not had success so far as I think they are injecting when the fruit is teeny. Might have to go down the hand pollinating route with a net over the whole plant. Happy to have come across this video today!
I hope you can get them under control African Violet.
Happy growing. 😁👍🌱
yep the bags are the only way i have ever stopped them .
nice work
cheers
Hi there.
I think they are the cheapest & easiest option for us here. Might be different if we had a large orchard though.
Cheers & have a great one.
Thanks share these important info ,I got my problem answer ,in my garden small pumpkin damaged
Hi Rob, I had the same problem with tomato plants here in Manitoba, Canada, I found that if you plant your tomato in a row with a 2+1 system, two tomatoes and one dill plant, the dill will hide the smell of the tomato and the bugs will stay away from the dill. Plus you will have dill for pickles if you grow them down there, good luck and keep it organic! take care and Merry Christmas too you and your family, Cheer's
I'm late starting my garden this year. I ended up planting all small tomatoes, except one. I also have cockatoos or galahs have a nibble last year. There's always something!
Thanks, very informative. I struggled growing kajari melon last year because of fruit fly too 😭.
Informative as usual, thanks
Glad I could help some AAHG. 👍
Hope they don't bother your plants too much.
@@RobsAquaponics I try not to bother them too much, but I like to touch😁
THANKS .
No problem.
Have a great one.
We used to have a mango tree but it died due to a lightning strike. Had pests problems too but never identified what it was. Sometimes the larvae are small like the ones you've shown, sometimes as big as your pinkie finger (I'm sure that's some type of beetle).
Not to gross out anyone but sometimes the fruits aren't a total write-off, I'd just remove the part where the vermins had ruined and eat the other part of the fruit. Those would taste better that the fruits that are wholly unblemished.
good information
Thanks mate.
Hope they don't bother you too much there.
Cheers & have a top one. 😁
Thank you so much. We, here in Cape Town South Africa has a similar problem. The account you give is a similar problem we have. My thoughts are also to net in the fruits.
John Martin
Darn those little blighters! Yep, I am sufficiently grossed out now. ;)
They do make a mess of the fruit Jeanette.
Hope you had a great Christmas & all the best for 2017.
Rob.
I did and I hope you did too. Happy New Year!
Glad to see you have a way of dealing with these guys :) What a pain though :)
A HUGE pain in the rear :/
Cheers mate & have a great one.
We have one that took out half my plumbs two years ago. last year the late frost killed all the blooms on the plumb... But that might have knocked the fly population for six I hope ,-)
Hahaha...Barry White ! Love it....
Got to get them in the mood ;)
Cheers.
Would be very keen to see how those excluders work mate...cheers, Ray & Kerri.
They look to be doing a great job thanks Ray & Kerri 👍 Have a few fruit that look like they escaped their attention until their skin hardened up so it will be interesting to see how they go too.
All the best to you both for 2017.
Rob & the Girls.
I get a shiver when I think about how it would be to bite into fruit and get a mouthful of maggots. You have some creepy insects down under.
God forbid I had gross experience with Burger rings at the drive Inn many years ago half way thru to my horror I discovered weavels ,I have never eaten them since.lol
Grateful. Florida hit bad.
Sorry to hear that WC. What variety do you have there?
i almost spit out my dinner laughing (apply a little berry white)!!!
Your welcome. 😉😃
Hope it was a tasty meal.
Cheers & all the best.
Hi Rob, love your work!
We have plagues of fungus gnats down here (NSW), any tips?
Hi David.
I use cider vinegar or red wine baits in our kitchen. A few cm in a shallow bowl & mix in a few drips of dish washing liquid to help break the surface tension. Normally cleans them up really well here. Also helps not to have any ripe fruit laying around.
Hope that helps a bit David.
Cheers & all the best.
We have some kind of fruit fly here, it is only hit and miss but they can do a lot of damage, I normally see them on my mango's and eggplant.
I wish ours weren't so good at their job. Normally if one fruit ids hit they all get stung :/
Cheers mate.
Glad the fruit flies where I live only bother with rotting fruit.
You're very lucky indeed. ;)
Cheers & all the best.
Rob.
Yuckie!!
Yep 😠 I think they're the worst pest we have here Harry.
Hope all's well with you & all the best for the coming new year.
Cheers,
Rob.
Lost a lot of peaches and manderines last year. Fruit fly stung the mandies through the mesh bag. Those bags you show for small crops look like the go. Gone all out this year. Caught most of the early first hatched females on the sticky oranges available online and on the yellow sticky traps. Also made torula yeast sugar and ammonia traps. One of the yeast traps had fruit flies in and hanging around it but not sure about qld ff. Have pybo pyrethrum for backup. One of the sticky oranges has 12 female fruit flies on it. Counting how many eggs they could have layed means some success. Early in the season yet, so will see what happens.
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2:52 there are couple of theories i seen: cherry tomato skin is too shiny for the fruit fly to get a firm grip. another theory is cherry tomato is too acidic for its liking so it tastes and dont like it and fly away. i will not go with skin is too tough theory. fruit fly can pierce thru pomegranate skin 😲
From what I've seen I think its just the tough skin of the cherries. They try their hardest but just can't pierce the skin.
That was disgusting to watch at the end there, lol! Thanks for sharing!! Very interesting.
They do like to make a mess of the fruit. At least they leave us a bit to use unlike the bats & possums.
Cheers & have a great one.
Rob.
I picked up a great tip which repels white cabbage moth using mothballs suspended in a sock nailed to the top of a wooden steak under an inverted plastic cup to keep the rain off. Works a treat. I wonder if the same stuff would repel fruit fly?
It doesn't unfortunately. 😓
It can be very frustrating like when i see a good looking pumpkin or cucumber only to turn it over & the darn fruit fly got to it! I think I'm gonna have to use those covers!😟TFS! Happy Holidays!🎄
Hi Cheryl & no problem. Hope you get some grub free fruit there. I have noticed that these melons look to be OK if the skin gets a chance to toughen up before the flies find them Have a few uncovered ones that look to be grub free now. Will be a few weeks before I get to see what they look like on the inside though.
Cheers & all the best for 2017.
Rob.
I can’t use exclusion bags as I have about 5x fruit trees which produce tons :/ can’t individually bag each one unfortunately
😓 We have the same issue with the mango tree that is taller than our house.
Thanks for giving me an idea of what my microbiology cousin used for a thesis looking at their wing proteins. Are these any different from the Victorian fruit fly?
I think they have the Mediterranean or "Med" fly variety down there Kath, not so much the QLD ones.
What are the little ones that buzz around your fruit bowl then? As they are tiny and can surely get thru the net holes?
We call them fruit gnats here & are not really an issue with fruit out in the patch. 👍
We control them with a dish with some wine or vinegar & a few drops of dish washing soap in it to control the gnats in the kitchen if that helps any.
Cheers.
Mason jar with 1 cup of apple cider vinegar to 3 cups of water with a couple drops of dish soap. The apple cider vinegar smells like over ripe fruit.
Hi there. Doesn't work with these ones unfortunately. Great for the fruit gnats you get buzzing around the fruit in the kitchen we've found.
Cheers & have a great one.
Look on the bright side, at least you get some protein intake when you eat your fruit now.
:D If only the girls knew what was in the mulberry jam ;)
Cheers & all the best.
Rob.
I live in South Africa and I have the same problem
😣 Do you get the Mediterranean fruit flies over there?
hi bob .my gova trees fruit have same problen ,pls advice me what orginic spray i do thx
As far as I know there's no organic spray that we can use on the Queensland fruit flies Hussain. It may be a different case for the variety that you have there. I'Ve found excluding them with netting or bags to be the best way to keep them from damaging the fruit.
Hope you can find a solution that works for you mate. 👍
Hi Rob
Do you know if you can buy exclusion netting? I cover my veggies with bird netting when their young and wonder if you could do the same for the fly
Hi Bob. All the white netting we use is exclusion netting we've bought from NetPro out at Stanthorpe.
www.netprocanopies.com
Hope that helps.
@@RobsAquaponics I use NetPro as well, very good
Little buggers are even hitting my cherry toms at the moment.
That's a bugger Andy. Haven't seen any in ours as of yet.
Cheers mate.
Hi Rob,
A little off-topic, but do you ever run into pythium/root rot in your aquaponics? If so, how do you combat it?
Hi there. From my understanding it is very rare for it to occur in aquaponics as the micro organisms in the system tend to keep it at bay. I have had a few plants get rot in their roots towards the end of their lives but I'd only be guessing as to what the cause was.
Cheers 👍
These flies have hut my water melon garden so bad..I lost over 309 water melons already..
Thank you for sharing
Sorry to hear that. Hope you got to save a few for yourself.
Pests suck! My biggest problems are white fly, aphids, spider mites, squash bugs, and squash vine borers!
Brent
Just found an outbreak of aphids on our Brukale Brent. Will be wandering down there at sunset to give them a spray I think.
Cheers mate & all the best for 2017
we use neem oil
Unfortunately neem doesn't work on the Queensland fruit flies. The female deposits the larvae into the fruit where it has no effect on them. If it did the commercial growers would help to make it legal to use on food crops here in Australia.
Lost my peppers and tomatoes to these here in Malaysia
Your 'Fruit Flies' look the size of our bees.
:D Would you like me to send you some so you can compare. ;)
Cheers John & all the best for 2017 mate.
Rob.
I always put them into boiling water to destroy them
Buy a Cera fruit fly trap, extremely effective...
Had no luck with them here. We have so many neighbours that let their fruit drop & rot (mangoes & loquats mainly) that we have had plagues of them some years. Even found them on fruit in the House on year. Now I net or bag all the fruit we want & that works well for us.
Cheers James.
I just want to see a carnivore plant growing in your patch to see what it catches. One of those big mouth ones would probably do well in your warmer weather potentially. Or something else. I think they might do a better job attracting the fruit fly but perhaps not enough? But Ye...
What kind of predators are there around that eats fruit flies? No natural insect that might work?
😄 Would need an army of the through summer here.
Have seen the small birds take them but that's about it.
WASPS are natural predators,,,,of fruit flys,,,and other pests,,DO NOT KILL WASPS,,!!!
Does neem oil work to dissuade them?
Hi Dawn. Can be very heart breaking. I don't think neem sprayed onto the plants would as it isn't a contact killer. I have been told that it makes a great systemic pesticide after the plants take it up through their roots but am not sure how effective it would be in a fruiting plant like this.
Cheers & all the best.
Can they sting through the exclusion bags?
I haven't had any issues with the ones we use MGC. 👍
This sucks i think im getting them on my watermelon it's weird cause my watermelon are just getting female flowers and I'm getting black marks on them... once u see black marks should I just dispose of my watermelon?
I would wait just to make sure it's fly strike & possibly not a mildew/mold issue CDT.
Hi. Do you know if fruit fly can affect passion fruit?
I haven't had issues with them in the past & my parents appear to be fly free Cara but I know others that have had issues.
Passion fruit Australia have a page dedicated to them.
passionfruitaustralia.org.au/home/grow-fruit/resources/managing-fruit-fly/
Hope they don't hit you too hard.
Rob I have the same problem. Can I spray any insect pesticide on the plant?
I prefer to use exclusion as I don't like to spray insecticides. They kill off too many of the good insects we need in the garden.
You can make up traps that will lure the pest so they can be poisoned away from the good insects. What you use to lure them would depend on the specific pest you're wanting to control.
Hope that helps a bit. 👍
Sure thing. Thanks mate! Take care and be safe :)
I really appreciate that you wrote back, cheers.
@@nawaztausif7134 I try to get to all comments sooner or later.
Have a top one.
those guys suck. I get a bigger fruit flies on my plum tree. and the evil white cabbage butterfly! other than that we're lucky in Tennessee USA. if I have a major pest problem I can't solve I simply grow a different plant with fewer problems. good video Rob
Ugh! What a shame to lose fruit like that!
I am lucky I don't have fruit fly issue s. Fingers cross tight ...LOL
Hope you don't too Mary. Not a pest Id wish on anyone. :/
Have a great one :)
wildchook (Mary) l brought one small bottle it costs me RM12 in Malaysian so expensive I used it less than ten days....finished...
I lost all my tomatoes capsicum this year i had non last year.....
They got all our pepinos this season. Did notice a few small flowers on there again the other day so we might get a few yet.
Can you grow tom's through the cooler seasons there Justin?
Cheers.
@@RobsAquaponics i have 2 small greenhouses so i can grow in there alot less problems. The pest pressure this year outside is alot worse for me.
Wee bastards, tried everything you have pal, exclusion seems only chance here, got a few beaut Grosse lisse behind a net, will I get a big tom...?
Hey Johnnie.
If those buggers are kept out you should do mate 👍 Have a few of these melons that look to of dodged the fruit flies. I think the skin got too hard for them to penetrate before they found them. Fingers are crossed anyway.
Hope you & yours had a great Christmas mate & all the best for 2017.
Cheers.
Looks like a terrible pest. We have recently been afflicted by a fruit destroying fruit fly, Spotted Wing Drosophila, but it seems to limit itself to soft fruit and leaves the vegetables and apples alone, so we're luckier than you I guess?
wow what an ugly insect, does it have any natural predators?
Howdy :)
Only the regular insect eaters as far as I know. If there was a stand out predator I'm sure the fruit industry would be using them.
Cheers & all the best for 2017 if we don't chat beforehand.
Rob.
ewwww
Yarp :/
I'm glad we don't have them here!
And I just noticed your subs are exploding! Nicely done!
Hey Colum. Do you get the Med fly their ?
Channel growth is happening in fits & starts. Would be nice to see a nice steep continual climb but I'd need to pump out a lot of content for that to happen I think ;)
Cheers mate.