The fruit fly restrictions in Beach Haven and Birkdale have been lifted after a seven-week search for more oriental fruit flies. No more have been found since the first one was found on 20 February.

Thankyou to everyone for your co-operation during this time. And thankyou to the Biosectuirty team for all of their work.

“During the operation, more than 2000 individual visits were made to check the 116 fruit fly traps in the Birkdale area throughout the response, over 470 biosecurity bins were distributed in the community to collect produce waste for safe disposal and more than 954 kilos of fruit were collected and examined for any signs of fruit fly eggs or larvae.”