Industry Update # 3 Queensland Fruit Fly Bayswater Incursion 2023

Situation Update issued 5 April 2023

This week the DPIRD Bayswater Qfly incident teams remain active in all areas of the Quarantine Area (QA), with a team focusing on eradication activities within the Corrective Action Zone (Bayswater residential area) and another team moving through the wider Export Assurance Zone, engaging with road-side stall holders, point of sale businesses and supporting other industry stakeholders.

A quick summary of the latest activities:

  • All street trees within the Corrective Action Zone have now been baited.

  • Approximately 1340 private properties have been visited and 608 of their host trees have been baited using Naturalure®.

  • 250 Amulet bait stations have been deployed.

  • Qfly surveillance traps remain deployed through the QA and 134 fruit samples have been collected for further analysis in DPIRD laboratories.

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