Promptly pick your ripe fruit and vegetables, and do not move or share fruit and vegetables from your property.
Prune fruit trees so you can pick them more easily next season.
Collect fallen fruit and dispose in a waste bin
Cleaning up fallen fruit from your garden helps break the fruit fly life cycle. It prevents potential fruit fly maggots from burying into the soil and developing into adult flies. Do not compost.
If you are in the Riverland, put unwanted fruit and vegetables in 2 sealed plastic bags and into a general waste bin.
If you are in the Adelaide metro area, you don’t need to bag it, just put it in a green waste bin. If you are in an outbreak area and don't have a green bin, check the advice on disposing of fruit and vegetables.
Check your fruit and vegetables regularly for fruit fly
