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A cold winter and wet, windy spring has seen a resurgence of Psa in kiwifruit vines in all affected areas.

Kiwifruit Vine Health (KVH) has received a Psa-V positive test result on Hort16A and male vines on a Whangarei kiwifruit orchard - the first confirmed case in the region.

An animal welfare offender has been disqualified from owning stock for 20 years and fined $7500 in Whangarei District Court.

INVESTIGATORS IN the fight against fruit flies hope that two newly fitted mobile field laboratories will help them improve their ability to manage the pests.

A YOUNG fruit grower from Whangarei secured first place at the Bay of Plenty Young Fruit Grower 2014 competition on Wednesday, June 18.

SOME 70 FIELD workers are out in Whangarei setting additional traps to lure any Queensland fruit flies that may be in the area.

ANOTHER Queesnland fruit fly has been found in Whangarei, near where a single fly was found in January.

INVESTIGATIONS INTO how a single fruit fly arrived in Whangarei must continue after the local port ruled out being the source, Labour's Primary Industries spokesman Damien O'Connor says.

THE MINISTRY for Primary Industries has lifted its controls on the movement of fruit and vegetables in Whangarei after no further Queensland fruit fly were found in the areas.

ALMOST 200 traps in Whangarei have detected no more Queensland fruit fly.