On 4/29/2013 1:57 PM, Steve Freides wrote:
> Nancy Young wrote:
>> On 4/29/2013 11:53 AM, James Silverton wrote:
>>> On 4/29/2013 11:31 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>>>> for potatoes, sweet potatoes and occasionally bananas. I do try not
>>>> to buy
>>>> bananas because they too seem to draw fruit flies.
>>
>> They don't draw them, they come with ready to hatch fruit
>> flies. Wash them when you get them home.
>
> Could you provide some support for that contention? Seems wrong to me -
> bananas I eat in the winter come from parts of world where it's summer
> and the only time we get fruit flies is when it's summer here.

Think about it, fruit flies don't spontaneously generate, they come
from fruit fly eggs. They come in on produce you buy, and just from
what I have seen, they hang around the bananas or the red onions.
They seem to be the favorites. That's just my observation.

So unless you have some fruit fly egg source in your house, they are
hitching a ride on your groceries.

> Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.

(laugh)

nancy