I'm also in Australia. When there is a fruit fly outbreak, it is taken very seriously. There are restrictions on what fruit can be taken to schools, across subu

I'm also in Australia. When there is a fruit fly outbreak, it is taken very seriously. There are restrictions on what fruit can be taken to schools, across suburb zones. There are teams of people that doorknock and put up traps on trees or get permission to go into your backyard and inspect dropped fruit, cutting it to look for fruit fly, etc. They wear hazmat-type garb and it all looks a bit dramatic for the suburbs. Even without an outbreak, there are restrictions on buying fruit and taking it into a particular agricultural zone. Heavy fines for bringing fruit over the state border (my mother copped a $300 fine for forgetting she had mandarins in the car boot on a roadtrip).