THE FRUIT FLY INVASION.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 78, 26 December 1907, Page 8

THE FRUIT FLY INVASION.

MOflE, INFECTED SHIPMENTS. '100 CASES CONDEMNED. The fruit fly invasion continues. Tho Monowai, from Auckland, arrived on Tuesday'with a cargo of Cook Islands fruit, of which 100 cases of bananas wore condemned as infected with ifruit fly. ; On the same day the Wimmera, _ from Sydney, unloaded 1762 cases of fruit, of which 50 cases were sent to bo fumigated for scalo diseaso, including mealy bug. The infested fruit consisted of lemons. ."". What the Fruit Fly Attacks. ' ' .The seriousness of the fruit fly pest is mado apparent by the greatness of the number of varieties of fruits that it attacks.The New Zealand inspectors at various times have found fruit fly in imported fruit of the following varieties: — Peaches. Tomatoes. Apricots. - Pineapples. Nectarines, ' Loquats. Chorrios. • Porsimmona. Plums. • Mandarinos. Poars. Oranges. Apples. Bananas, Mangoo. V, Maupi Frnjt. Shaddocks. Grenadillas. - Mammee-applea. ;