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Fruit fly found in Whangarei again


The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) is investigating a new find of a single male Queensland fruit fly in a surveillance trap in Whangarei. The fly was collected from an MPI routine surveillance trap on Tuesday and formally identified late on Wednesday. This is Richard Calvert, from AsureQuality, talks about what has been done so far.

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