Preventing fruit fly from spoiling fruit is a never ending battle for growers right across Australia.
But it seems there could be an effective fly controller living in your poultry shed.
Colin Reid is a citrus grower from Northampton, which about 450 kilometres north of Perth.
He has about 700 trees which are patrolled by 100 fruit-fly-hunting chickens.
He says there are a few secrets to growing sweet, chemical free, fruit, such as spraying new foliage with fertilizer.
Chickens are used to scratch for the fruit fly pupae moving in the ground at the base of the fruit tree.