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Post by maya55555 on Aug 7, 2018 5:39:10 GMT
DAMNED STINKIN' Fruit flies! 
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2018 11:31:08 GMT
Important wild orchid pollinators, fruit flies🥀
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Post by maya55555 on Aug 7, 2018 17:40:01 GMT
Father Jack
YES, and they teach many a pimply faced Biology major genetics, too. However, not in my house!
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Post by Ass_E9 on Aug 7, 2018 18:17:56 GMT
Somehow I was expecting this thread to be about Taco Bell Nacho Fries.
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Post by koskiewicz on Aug 7, 2018 19:43:22 GMT
...I grew up with a guy whose nickname was "fruitflies" because he was a very tiny underweight guy...
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Post by divtal on Aug 7, 2018 20:54:25 GMT
The only thing that you can do is to TRY to limit their access to fruits/veggies that are maturing, inside. That's hard to do during the warmer months. There are so many things that you don't want to refrigerate, or smother with plastic. But, if they smell, or otherwise sense it, they will come. ADVANTAGE, FRUIT FLY!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2018 23:10:27 GMT
They infested my office a few years ago. Really, really annoying and impossible to kill.
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Post by divtal on Aug 7, 2018 23:21:07 GMT
A few years ago, I looked online for eradication systems. There were a couple of "traps," that were suggested.
I tried one, and it did, indeed, "trap" them. The problem is that you have to use a jar/glass/dish of vinegar, or wine, to attract them. I "trapped," what seemed like thousands of them. But, couldn't figure out WHY I had more of them, than ever. DOH!! It finally occurred to me that, as long as you have the "attraction" ... vinegar/wine ... they'll keep coming.
So, never mind any "traps."
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Post by snsurone on Aug 8, 2018 15:03:12 GMT
Be grateful!
My kitchen has been infested with roaches for weeks, and I keep it spotless.
Apparently, someone in another apartment is a pig, and I'm catching the fallout.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2018 19:47:39 GMT
Be grateful! My kitchen has been infested with roaches for weeks, and I keep it spotless. Apparently, someone in another apartment is a pig, and I'm catching the fallout. Boric acid powder or Borax keeps the roaches under control. I have never known it not to work. |
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Post by deembastille on Aug 11, 2018 17:39:11 GMT
for the fruit flies...
get a tall glass. pour in about an inch of apple cider or red wine they svinegar. take a small plastic bag [like a Ziploc or something] and cut a corner off creating a hole abut a half an inch if not less but not more. place the plastic bag over the top of the hole of the glass. gently shove the part of the bag with the hole down into the glass but do not let it touch the apple cider vinegar. tape the top of the bag to the outside of the glass to keep it from slipping.
you are kind of like putting a funnel inside the glass.
they sneak into the hole, smelling something sweet, then when they try to get out they cant find the hole and they get stuck to the bag a little...
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Aug 11, 2018 18:47:26 GMT
This is the first summer I haven't had any fruit flies -yet.
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Post by divtal on Aug 11, 2018 19:09:02 GMT
for the fruit flies... get a tall glass. pour in about an inch of apple cider or red wine they svinegar. take a small plastic bag [like a Ziploc or something] and cut a corner off creating a hole abut a half an inch if not less but not more. place the plastic bag over the top of the hole of the glass. gently shove the part of the bag with the hole down into the glass but do not let it touch the apple cider vinegar. tape the top of the bag to the outside of the glass to keep it from slipping. you are kind of like putting a funnel inside the glass. they sneak into the hole, smelling something sweet, then when they try to get out they cant find the hole and they get stuck to the bag a little... That's essentially the trap that I made, only the instructions I had said to make a funnel, with a small hole, from a piece of printer paper. Over a few days I had many more flies than I had had, before. It's true that that they're "trapped" in the glass, but the trap, itself, becomes a major attraction. God knows where they came from! After 10 days, or so, the bottom of the glass was thick with little fruit-fly carcasses. It was revolting.  My instructions called for wine, and I used a nice Cab, so they should have died happy.  |
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