Response underway after single male Queensland fruit fly found in Mt Roskill
7 January 2026
A single male Queensland fruit fly has been identified this morning in the Auckland suburb of Mt Roskill, as part of Biosecurity New Zealand’s national surveillance programme.
A biosecurity operation is now underway to manage the discovery.
There have been 13 incursions of different fruit fly in Auckland and Northland since 1996 and all have been successfully eradicated.
Over the next 72 hours, Biosecurity New Zealand will be ramping up trapping and inspection, with daily checks in a 200-metre zone from the original find and checks every three days in a second zone out to 1500 metres.
As a precautionary measure, Biosecurity New Zealand will be putting legal restrictions in place on the movement of fruit and vegetables out of the area where the fruit fly was found.
The Ministry for Primary Industries has advised that there are no market access or trade implications at the present time and won't be unless a breeding population is found.