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The search for more oriental fruit flies is continuing in South Auckland after the insect was found in a Papatoetoe surveillance trap on Friday. Strict fruit and vegetable movement restrictions would ...

The move – expected to last at least two weeks – comes after a single male Oriental fruit fly was found in a surveillance trap in the South Auckland suburb. To date, no other flies have been ...

Checks of the other 187 traps within this zone did not find any fruit flies. The insect is considered one of the most "destructive and widespread" of all fruit flies, that can jeopardise the country's ...

Extra field teams were in the suburb today but checks of other traps in the Papatoetoe and Māngere areas did not turn up any other fruit flies, Biosecurity New Zealand Commissioner Mike Inglis said.

We have probably all consumed different body parts of fruit flies—without any known ill effects. But the fruit fly is much more than an annoying house guest. In fact, Drosophila melanogaster has ...