New Zealand fruit and vegetable growers should continue to have confidence in the ongoing investigations into Auckland fruit fly detections, says the horticulture-wide group set up to jointly prepare for and respond to the potential impacts of fruit fly.

Stu Hutchings, KVH Chief Executive and Chair of the Fruit Fly Council - a governance group made up of impacted industry sector representatives and MPI under the Government Industry Agreement (GIA) partnership - says the responses are running well and are following the pre-agreed operational plans established and tested in previous responses.

Biosecurity New Zealand, in partnership with KVH and other horticultural industry groups, is investigating detections of fruit flies in Auckland.

All the finds have been of solitary, male, flies - this does not mean New Zealand has an outbreak of fruit fly and there is no evidence of a population of unwanted fruit flies.