South West Australia
 

Well I decided to visit South West Australia yesterday. Starting from Perth we stopped in various places like Busstleton Jetty; Cape Naturaliste; Ngilgi caves (were closed due to christmas); Blackwood river; Beedalup falls (Beedalup National Park); Big brook dam; Gloucester Tree park (Pemberton) and ending up the tour in Albany (passing through Walpole and Denmark).

Although there were spectacular sceneries along the way but the most annoying part was the bush flies especially around busstleton jetty and cape Naturaliste area. Flies are also present in Perth but not to that extent; I was wondering if this fly issue is present in all of Australia or its mostly confined in South West Australia?

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Sydney's fine. Melbourne only in hot days...

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People before they immigrate worry about snakes and spiders but once they get to OZ they realise they are nothing to worry about and that its only the flies that are a problem.

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Well its not that I havent seen flies before; but these dust flies are very annoying; they keep on sitting on your body in large numbers and you keep on flying them they will keep on sitting on you. I believe that the government has to do something about that I am sure the government is attending to this problem as South Western AUSTRALIA is considered to be one of the best tourist attractions in the world.

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Strange, we were just saying yesterday and today that we have seen less flies compared to the last 2half years.

We are north of Perth, but def think less flies than usual.

Gems

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What would you like the government to do about the flies? It's part of living in this country. Just like sharks in the ocean or snakes and spiders. Get used to it and like Gems said, there are way less this year than last year.

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The introduction of dung beetles can solve the problem of flies; and it has been used in South Western Australia during 1968 to 1982.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...26/2526887.htm

Tour operators want dung beetle scheme back
Posted Thu Mar 26, 2009 1:26pm AEDT

Tourism operators in south-west Western Australia say they could lose business if the Government does not revive its dung beetle program to combat the increasing bushfly problem.
Tourism in the south-west relies on a large number of visitors from Asia over the summer, but Paul Nolan from the Pemberton Visitors Centre say they are being driven away by the nuisance of bushflies.

"If we do have a fly problem we probably lost them, not just for one year but maybe two or three years," he said.

The former head of the state's dung beetle program says flies could be controlled if a spring-active dung beetle was introduced.

But Tourism Minister Liz Constable is not prepared to fund such a program.

"The issue is something that's always been with agriculture, but at the same time it's something that across a number of departments we have to consider," she said.

Agriculture Minister Terry Redman says his department will not fund the program in the current economic climate.

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Great. Introduce dung beetles so tourists can moan about the dung beetle population.