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House of Assembly - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)
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Fruit Fly

Ms BEDFORD (Florey) (15:09): My question then is to the Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development. How many fruit fly traps are there now out in the field to eradicate fruit fly, how often are the traps checked and is anything ever found in them?

The Hon. D.K.B. BASHAM (Finniss—Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development) (15:09): I thank the member for Florey for her question. I firstly want to thank the PIRSA staff for doing a wonderful job out there in the Adelaide metropolitan area as well as up in the Riverland and Port Augusta, working in the backyards and working with the people of those regions to get on top of fruit fly. They are doing an amazing job at being able to address the issue.

It is very pleasing to announce that in the last two weeks we have had no detections whatsoever of larvae or flies in the areas across that currently have detections, so it is really pleasing that that be the case. But it is so important that we do get on top of this. We will very much need to have the general public support in this as well, making sure they understand the need to make sure they minimise the movement of fruit off their properties when they are in those hot zones.

They can't take it off unless it is put in the green bin with the lid shut to make sure that fruit is not available for infestation by fruit fly. It's also important we remind people that there is the opportunity, particularly in those hot zones—and we have seen only recently out in Norwood, where the PIRSA staff have actually been assisting people strip their fruit in their backyards if they don't want that fruit to make sure that we don't have that fruit sitting out there as a host source as well. So there are many things that we are doing.

Regarding the traps and details, I am happy to get those details of particular numbers to the member for Florey. I don't have them here in front of me, the actual numbers, but we are seeing occasionally detections in those traps, yes.

Ms Bedford: You are seeing what? Infections?

The Hon. D.K.B. BASHAM: We do see detections of flies in those traps. They are how we actually detect the flies. The larvae are found in fruit detections, but the flies are found in traps. I don't have the actual details in relation to those, but I'm happy to get them back for the member.

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