The ‘Bye Bye Fruit Fly’ event includes a school session and a community information session. The school session will see primary school students decorate QFF bottle traps and learn about strategies to manage fruit fly in their home, before enjoying a barbecue lunch and freshly picked apples from local growers. Students will take their decorated traps home and be able to place them in their garden and do their bit to reduce the spread of QFF.
Both events are open to members of the public.
- What: ‘Bye Bye Fruit Fly’ school session
- Where: Tongala Shire Hall
- When: Tuesday 17 October 2017 from 10.30am
- What: ‘Bye Bye Fruit Fly’ community information session
- Where: Tongala Shire Hall
- When: Tuesday 17 October 2017 from 6.30pm
QFF is a serious risk to the region’s horticulture industry, backyard orchards and vegetable gardens. Fruit fly are generally relatively dormant during winter when the weather is too cold for them to be active, however start to become more active in Spring.
The Tongala ‘Bye Bye Fruit Fly’ program will be put to the Lions Convention in October to be adopted by Lions Clubs in NSW and Victorian Clubs and if approved and rolled out by other Clubs will have a positive effect on raising community awareness about fruit fly management.
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For more information contact Kathryn Maddox, M) 0438 548 758
