Queensland Fruit Fly - Bactrocera tryoni
Family Tephritidae
This page contains pictures and information about Queensland Fruit Flies that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia
- Body length 6mm
- We found quite a number of this flies on the peach tree in Botanic Garden in Mt Coot-Tha. The fly is mostly orange-brown in colour with yellow strips on thorax. Its abdomen is stout with a pale brown band. Its wings are with dark front edges and dark base.
- We also found this Queensland Fruit Fruit Fly in a house front yard. It is trying to lay eggs in a rose bud.
- The fly lays eggs in all kind of fruits, basically only pineapple and strawberry are not affected. Their larvae hatch and live inside the infected fruit. When the larvae become mature, and the fruit usually becomes rotten and fall onto the ground, the larvae come out and pupate in soil.
- Reference:
- 1. Wildlife of Tropical North Queensland - Queensland Museum Publications 2000, p107.
- 2. Bactrocera tryoni (Froggatt) - Fruitfly - NSW Agriculture, 1998.
- 1. Wildlife of Tropical North Queensland - Queensland Museum Publications 2000, p107.
