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Fresno, CA

All three of my female fruit, including two post pollination and one pre-pollination have groups of small holes in them. All the fruit are destroyed. I don't think we have SVBs here in Central California. Would fruit flys do that? I saw some small flys scatter from the area when I went to pull the foam cover off the day after pollination.

7/8/2011 1:06:22 AM

Bloomington, IN

Are the petals still on by any chance? Do they look a little mushy when you see the flies?

7/9/2011 12:15:55 AM

Bloomington, IN

I say that because I have a bucket for garden trimmings that go into my compost pile and when I toss male pumpkin blossoms in there after a couple of days they get mushy and start attracting fruit flies.

7/9/2011 12:18:00 AM

Fresno, CA

Yeah - the petals are still on and they look totally healthy.

7/9/2011 2:15:07 AM