Apricots and fruit flies.....

So, the apricot trees who had only gone in a few months ago, had a grand total of 4 fruits on them.

However, some little black ants had made tiny little holes in them, about 4 or 5 per fruit and I noticed some syrup congealing on the skin. Didn't seem to be doing anything to the fruit though, so we left it. Then a cold snap came through, and within a day 2 of the fruit had rotted on the tree.

When we took them off, they were infested with little worms, all chomping away merrily and very disgusting. So either a) they were already infected and the cold allowed them to develop, or b) a stray fruit fly came through early one morning.

Either way, we'll have to get little mesh bags and cover them next year. Spraying the fly is time consuming and not a great success, so little bags it is.