So! The results of the Great Fruit-Fly Experiment are at hand!
As you recall, I bagged about half the apples with fruit fly bags that were supposed to be for tomato plants:
...and this worked out pretty well. When I took the bags off today, voila! (These are Dwarf Annas):
Of course, the half that wasn't bagged was a dismal failure. Not only did the unbagged fruit have fruit fly stings on it, most of them were half-chewed. I suspected fruit bats (there is a large colony near here) until Action Man reported seeing a pair of King parrots making their morning visit at daybreak for a bit of an apple snack attack:
Apparently they were there at daybreak every morning for a couple of weeks. I don't mind sharing with King parrots, especially. But the harvest was only 6 or 7kg this time, instead of the 20kg we got last time. (Dwarf Golden Dorsetts):
Yay!
