Alternative fruit fly management for market access for apples

Abstract

Difficulty with control of Queensland fruit fly with four cultivars of apples on the Granite Belt, Qld.

Warnings that the insecticides dimethoate & fenthion might be removed from the market for apples, had been current for several years. Dimethoate was widely used as a post harvest control measure as well as an in-field treatment. Fenthion also had and still has in-field usage. The project attempted to find a replacement for these control measures.