Further updates will be published here on the KVH website when significant information/changes occur.

The biosecurity response to the find of a single male Oriental fruit fly in Papatoetoe is making good progress with extra traps in place, stepped up checks, legal controls introduced, special bins delivered for fruit and vegetable waste disposal, and a mobile lab in place.

There were already 187 surveillance traps in the Papatoetoe/Mangere area, and by the end of today an extra 105 will be in place within a 1500m area of the original find.

Yesterday legal controls were introduced to restrict the movement of fruit and vegetables around the location where the Oriental fruit fly was found to stop the spread of any others that may be out there.

The response team have been delivering information to residential letterboxes about the two zones affected by restrictions and people can also find full information about what they need to do here.

People will also notice biosecurity signage up in the area and special disposal bins for fruit and vegetable waste.

Every household in Zone A will have a fruit and vegetable disposal bin, and in Zone B, there will be bins placed around the edge of the zone, primarily on major transport routes and further bins placed within the zone.

The bins in Zone A will be cleared daily initially, then as required.

At present, the restrictions will be in place for a fortnight.

A mobile laboratory to examine fruit and vegetables collected from around Papatoetoe for Oriental fruit fly larvae and eggs has been set up. The mobile lab work and checking of fruit helps to provide an extra layer of certainty that there are no other fruit flies out there.

To report suspected finds of fruit fly, call Biosecurity New Zealand's hotline on 0800 80 99 66.

Further updates will be published here on the KVH website when significant information is available.

• Detection and response activities - including posters and resources in many languages - are available on the Biosecurity New Zealand website here.
  
• Oriental fruit fly and fact sheet images are on the KVH website here.
• Past updates from KVH are on the KVH website here.