24/01/2025
Fruit fly information – For parents and carers, and school staff:
Fruit fly has been detected in the Glynde area.
There are no restrictions on including store bought fruit in school lunch boxes, in any area. However, there are restrictions on home-grown fruit.
People living within a 15km radius of the detection site are affected, please check the fruit fly outbreak map to see if your home or school travel route is within this area.
Red Outbreak Zone: If you live here, keep all home-grown fruit at home. Do not take it to school or elsewhere.
Yellow Suspension Zone: You can move home-grown fruit within this zone but not into the red outbreak zone.
Home-grown fruit includes fruiting vegetables: tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, avocado and capsicum. You can check the full list of fruit at Restricted fruit and vegetables.
These restrictions are in place until 16 April 2025. Any further detections in the red or yellow zone will extend the original end date.
