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Blue Light From LEDs Can Rot The Brains Of Fruit Flies, Study Finds

Fruit Fly General Oct. 21, 2019



The blue light that emanates from every smartphone and fluorescent bulb isn’t thought to be great for our health, particularly the health of our eyes. But a new study in fruit flies suggests that blue light can even be harmful to brains and speed up ageing — again, in fruit flies. There’s a very long way to go before we could assume the same is true for people.

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Researchers making fruit flies twice as 'sexy'

Disease & weed control Fruit Fly Oct. 14, 2019



Australian researchers have developed a new type of fly food that can help double the number of "sexy" sterile Queensland fruit flies being reared in laboratories.

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Sterile fruit flies soon to hit NSW and Victorian skies

Fruit Fly Sept. 13, 2019



Millions of sterile Queensland Fruit Flies to be released over trial sites in western NSW and northern Victoria.

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Spring into action against fruit fly

Fruit Fly Sept. 4, 2019



Now is the time to start action against fruit fly this season. With the days starting to warm up Queensland Fruit Fly (QFF) are starting to become more active in their search for food.

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$10M funding injection to support the eradication of Qfly

Fruit Fly July 19, 2019



Australian research into sterile insect technology has been strengthened through a $10 million collaborative project managed by Hort Innovation, with significant cash contributions by Western Sydney University and the Government of South Australia.

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New funding to keep exotic fruit fly at bay in FNQ

Fruit Fly July 18, 2019



The Queensland Government has moved to protect jobs in Far North Queensland’s agricultural sector by boosting funding to efforts to eradicate exotic fruit fly in the region.

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Funding for development of new fruit fly control technology

Fruit Fly May 28, 2019



Macquarie University has recently been awarded $4.7 million funding from Horticulture Innovation Australia Ltd to identify the genetic code that enables elimination of females in overseas fruit flies so that these characteristics can be reproduced in Australia’s Queensland fruit fly.

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Fruit fly outbreak declared at Lindsay Point, Victoria

Fruit Fly May 24, 2019



An outbreak of Queensland fruit fly (Q-fly) was declared on Tuesday 21 May at Lindsay Point in Victoria, after a detection of a gravid female.

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Fruit fly eradication fight in South Australia boosted by new x-ray irradiation machine

Fruit Fly May 11, 2019



South Australia will be able to produce up to 50 million sterile fruit flies a week to protect the state's $1.2 billion horticulture industry.

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Research Impact: Management solutions for pest fruit flies in Australia and south-east Asia

Fruit Fly April 5, 2019



Pest fruit flies cause fruit and vegetable production losses, food shortages in developing countries, and severe trade restrictions preventing export of horticultural products.

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Common fruit flies are beginning to build a resistance to common insecticides

Fruit Fly March 25, 2019



Fruit flies in temperate parts of the country are becoming resistant to common insecticides, new research has found.

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AI diagnostics tool to help identify fruit fly gender

Fruit Fly March 8, 2019



A South Australian company has developed an AI diagnostics tool that combines a microscope and smartphone to deliver agtech solutions.

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Port Augusta sterile insects released in Riverland

Fruit Fly Feb. 20, 2019



Port Augusta has joined the fight against a fruit fly outbreak in the the Riverland.

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Fruit fly restrictions lifted in Tasmania but markets yet to recognise status

Stone Fruit Fruit Fly Jan. 9, 2019



Tasmania has officially clocked over into fruit fly-free status but Australia's trading partners will not automatically recognise the change.

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New fruit fly crackdown means a $375 fine for anyone bringing fruit into South Australia

Fruit Fly Jan. 5, 2019



Motorists caught bringing fruit into SA will no longer receive a caution, but will instead be slapped with a $375 fine. It’s part of a zero tolerance approach by the State Government to keep the state fruit-fly free.

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