last year I used brown paper bags wrapped over the fruit to stop fruit fly - it was successful but a bit messy when it rained.

does anyone know where to get all weather fruit bags?

or is there an easier way to control fruit fly on the sunshine coast?

my main weapons are good husbandry and those fruit fly wicks you buy from the produce agencies. good husbandry is make sure all fallen fruit is collected and destroyed or dumped off site, don't bury it or mulch it on site unless the fruit has been cooked to kill the larva. also in most cases not all the fruit gets damaged you can still eat parts of it i know some who say what the heck they eat it larva and all reckon a bit of protein isn't going to hurt.

anyway there are also other trap irdeas on my remedies page.

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I have an apricot tree, fruiting for its 2nd year.
last year we had a hailstorm that knocked almost all the blossoms off.There was a few apricots, but all with grubs (?fruit fly)

It's just starting to fruit now & although I asked at a local nursery & saw their ?Dakpots & fruit fly spray ($35+)
The nuseryman told me that fruit fly was becoming so bad here (Sydney) that it wasn't really worth planting fruit trees any more.

I figured people in here would be able to answer the heap of questions I still have...so here goes (if no-one minds)

Len, I saw your remedy page & I need to know what you put the mixture in, how many traps do you need for a tree about 6' high, do you hang it in the tree, like a dakpot?
or put it on the ground.Do you need ?wicks or just put a hole in the side of the bottle?

How do you use the paper bags I read about here?
& anything else that may help this VERY naive (but keen) gardener.