"Steve Freides" > wrote in message
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> 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.
>
> Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
>
> -S-

I won't say that they always come with fruit flies but they can. I kept
getting them in CA. I thought it was the tomatoes. I had a banana tree and
the tomatoes sat in a basket below. Then one day another shopper told me
not to buy the bananas because they were loaded with fruit flies. I didn't
buy them. Bought from another store. No more fruit flies!

Then after we moved here, I bought bananas at Costco. They were in a bag.
I left them on top of my little fridge in the bag because there were too
many to fit on my tree. Woke up to a bag full of a black swarm! Bag was
totally sealed. So in that case they did come from the bananas.

But... I also know that they can be drawn into the house. The screen on
the kitchen door was coming loose when we bought the house and the yard was
full of rotted fruit. The loose screen allowed the flies to come in.