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    Biosecurity officials hunting Queensland fruit flies in Auckland - have found nothing after another weekend of precautions

    Biosecurity officials hunting Queensland fruit flies in Auckland - have found nothing after another weekend of precautions


    A surveillance trap caught a single male fly in Mount Roskill two weeks ago.

    Biosecurity New Zealand says staff have been visiting markets - alongside increasing surveillance, trapping, and inspections, but found no more flies.

    © 2026 Newstalk ZB, NZCity

     Other Environment News
     20 Jan: Northland Civil Defence is warning streams and rivers could rise rapidly - as more wet and windy weather pummels the upper North Island
     20 Jan: China ramps up crackdown on Christians amid global political pressures
     19 Jan: Small Northland communities got the worst of the weekend's flooding, but more is to come
     19 Jan: Some people in Northland remain cut-off due to flooding - including a group at a DOC campsite in Puriri Bay, south-east of the Bay of Islands
     19 Jan: Northlanders may have to wait until Wednesday until access to all roads is restored following flooding in its North Eastern area
     18 Jan: MetService has declared 2 severe weather watches
     18 Jan: Civil Defence and marae have sprung into action, after flooding in Northland's North east region
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     Today's News

    		 Environment:
    Northland Civil Defence is warning streams and rivers could rise rapidly - as more wet and windy weather pummels the upper North Island 11:37

     Business:
    Fletcher Building is selling off its construction arm to a French multinational 11:17

     National:
    Why Keir Starmer had to speak out against Trump over Greenland after staying quiet on Venezuela 11:17

     Living & Travel:
    China ramps up crackdown on Christians amid global political pressures 11:17

     Cricket:
    Black Caps wicketkeeper Tom Blundell is relishing time without gloves in T20 Super Smash cricket 10:47

     Politics:
    ‘We got lazy and complacent’: Swedish pensioners explain how abolishing the wealth tax changed their country 10:37

     Living & Travel:
    The air force's Ohakea base has been unstaffed overnight since the pandemic, effectively closing New Zealand to overseas aircraft in some circumstances 10:27

     National:
    How George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four predicted the global power shifts happening now 10:27

     National:
    A year on from his second inauguration, Trump 2.0 has one defining word: power 10:17

     National:
    For 80 years, the president’s party has almost always lost House seats in midterm elections, a pattern that makes the 2026 congressional outlook clear 10:07

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