Sterile fruit flies released to help protect hort sector in SA

October 22 2020 - 1:00pm
PROTECTED: South Australia' $1.3 billion fruit and vegetable sector will benefit from the release of 100 million sterile fruit flies to contain eight outbreaks in suburban Adelaide. Photo: SHUTTERSTOCK
PROTECTED: South Australia' $1.3 billion fruit and vegetable sector will benefit from the release of 100 million sterile fruit flies to contain eight outbreaks in suburban Adelaide. Photo: SHUTTERSTOCK

CLOSE to 100 million sterile fruit flies will be released in some fruit fly hotspots in the coming weeks to help contain and eradicate eight existing outbreaks in the Adelaide suburbs.

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