Queensland fruit fly

Queensland fruit fly, Bactrocera (Dacus) tryoni, lays its eggs in maturing and ripe fruit.

Maggots hatch from the eggs and the fruit is usually destroyed by their feeding and by associated decays.

This fruit fly can infest many different commercial and native fruits and tolerates a fairly wide range of climatic conditions over a large geographical area.

It has therefore come to be regarded as one of Australia’s major fruit fly pests.

This Primefact covers the following topics:

• Description and life history
• Seasonal development
• Susceptible fruits
• Damage to fruit