French flies to help south coast farmers in fight against snails

March 18th, 2024

West Australian, Other, 15/03/2024, Olivia Ford
A biocontrol program using Australian-bred parasitoid flies is the new line of defence against the snail pest population on WA’s south coast. […] SARDI and CSIRO mass-reared the French fly populations in the early 2000s on South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula.

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