16/10/2026
Living in South East Queensland, the Queensland fruit fly is a huge issue especially for growing fruit. We have a fruit orchard of over 100 fruit trees and over the years we have tried various things to try and limit the fruit fly. We want to keep our fruit as natural and pesticide free as possible so spraying is out of the question.
This year we have done some research and we decided to make our own fruit fly traps. The methods we have found were fairly inexpensive as well. We have decided to create a trap for the female and a separate ones for the males to see which is better in the long term.
We bought the traps off Shein and this is the method we have used.
Male fruit fly traps:
1L Wild May Fruit Fly Attractant
2 pipettes of Frontline (Fipronil is what kills them and that is the main ingredient in frontline)
We have put some on the wick and then some in the bottom of the trap to see which is better.
Female fruit fly traps:
1 cup 100% fruit juice (juiced ourselves with 1 sachet of yeast)
2 tablespoon cloudy ammonia
We also just put the liquid in the bottom of the traps.
This time we have done separate traps but we may do a mixed trap of both next time around.
We will check back next week and see what is working.
What have you found that works for fruit flies?
