It is critical to monitor traps to detect and accurately time controls. Fly species identification is important because other flies with similar wing patterns may be caught.

If flies are detected, management is typically required within 7 to 10 days to prevent egg laying in fruit. Eggs are 1 mm long, oval and white, and are laid singly in fruit. Maggots hatch in about 5 days and grow to about 7 mm long inside one berry. Infested berries soon become soft, and shrivelled. Mature larvae drop to the ground, where they burrow into the soil to pupate.