New Zealand Biosecurity Services.
Photo: RNZ / Alexander Robertson
Biosecurity New Zealand is investigating and boosting trapping after new Auckland fruit fly was found on Thursday.
An operation is under way and extra field teams are in the suburb of Birkdale, on Auckland’s North Shore, after the discovery of the single male Oriental fruit fly.
The fly was found in a surveillance trap in a suburban backyard, Biosecurity New Zealand Commissioner North Mike Inglis said.
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