Fruit fly infestation
On Sep 30, 10:45*am, "Steve B" > 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!
>
> 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.
Then:
Tell me how high could a fruit fly fly
If a fruit fly could fly high.
>
> HTH
>
> Steve
--Bryan
|