On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:13:26 -0400, "Cheryl" >
wrote:

>Luckily, not at my house. I've seen one here and there, but nothing out of
>control. I finally got to the store tonight and was looking through produce
>and needed some onions, so was about to pick up a few yellow onions from the
>loose bin but they were COVERED with fruit flies! Literally dotted with
>them. Flying around. Disgusting. I didn't buy any, needless to say. The
>ones in the mesh bags while they cost a little more didn't have any that I
>could see, and they weren't anywhere near the loose ones.

That's odd, here the loose onions cost more than the ones in mesh
bags, loose potatoes cost more too... reason being loose are picked
over for the best ones and the misfits are ignored... bagged contain a
mix of good and not so good. I rarely see fruit flies at the market I
shop... but this time of year, at the onset of cooler weather, fruit
flies are more prolific. The entire life cycle of a fruit fly is 24
hours, which is why they are very important for all sorts of scientifc
reasearch, pharmalogical, genetic, psychological, the fruit fly has
even been brought into space.