Last season saw extensive use of the Fruition Trap technology, in its second year of commercialisation, for attracting, monitoring and managing Queensland Fruit Fly (QFF).
Excellent results were achieved from areas as far apart as Gatton in Qld and Swan Hill in Vic.
And now, the new pricing of the Fruition Trap makes it even more competitive.
This year, QFF activity has started earlier than usual in most regions and growers should already be planning their QFF management strategy.
Start the program early
Andrew Glover from AgNova Technologies, said that it is important to decide on a QFF management strategy before the season gets underway and to start the program early.
Applications of Fruition Natflav 500 should begin when the fruit is still at the hard green stage, before it becomes attractive to QFF.
This is also the stage when Fruition Traps should be deployed in orchards to monitor QFF populations.
Once QFF are detected on Fruition Traps, the number of traps deployed needs to be increased and other control techniques need to be employed as part of an overall IPM strategy for QFF.
IPM the key to success
Andrew stressed that, although Fruition Traps and Fruition Natflav 500 are major components of the overall management strategy for QFF, the key to successful management of QFF is integrated pest management—implementing a program which includes orchard hygiene, monitoring of QFF, trapping and protein bait sprays and, where available, cover sprays.
Information regarding the use of Fruition Traps and Fruition Natflav 500 is available from AgNova Technologies agents.
www.agnova.com.au
See this article in Tree Fruit Oct 2018
