Carambola fruit fly fact sheets
The Carambola fruit fly is one of the world’s most economically damaging pests of fruit crops. The species is native to Malaysia, Thailand and the west of Indonesia, but has now spread across most of south-east Asia, including Vietnam. It is also now very widespread in Brazil and some neighbouring countries after being introduced to that region in the 1980s. It has not been found in Papua New Guinea. The highest risk of it being introduced to Australia is through illegally imported fruit or through natural dispersal pathways (wind).
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