> > 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!

Those flies lay eggs by the zillions. There could have been lots of eggs,
but no flies, and you would have thought it was a great store.



>. Set an open 2 litre pop bottle out with an inch or so of
>vinegar solution in the bottom. Have caught about a dozen so far.
>Maybe fruit juice would have been better choice. In another >room

Go buy wasp traps. They look like plastic mason jars with a black cap, and
a little yellow roof. Seriously overpriced at about $8, but they work great
for yellow jackets and wasps.

USE APPLE JUICE, about an inch of it. You will catch a lot of flies.

I was a lab assistant in college. My job was to raise fruit flies.
Students were given a thousand at a time, and they had to anesthetize them,
and sort them on such things as color of eyes, shriveled wings, etc, to get
the basics of genetics. They then would breed selected fly couples. The
results were charted.

Point is, fruit flies are prolific breeders. They mature rapidly. And the
most important point is that you can bring home eggs without knowing it.
They are tiny and hard to spot, even if you are paying attention. Washing
the fruit, and soaking in some solution that will kill eggs is a good thing.
Once they get going, they can explode in a few days. Good news is that they
have a short life span.

HTH

Steve

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