Fruit Flies!

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PadreBrian_IHB

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My place for the last few weeks has been inundated with these lil miniature med-fruit fly flies. Not coming from inside...everything is sprayed and bug free. Not the drains or anything. Coming from outside.



Anyone else with these pests?
 
I get those little buggers every time I buy bananas... I have fruit bowl on the counter in the kitchen filled with fruit... nothing else attracts the fruit flies... just the bananas. A few hours after the bananas are gone, so are the bugs. They are very annoying.



True to Eva's comment in the other thread... they go straight to my glass of wine too. Kinda gross to be drinking a glass of wine after a long day and find the little guys drunk and passed out in your wine. Well, at least they died happy! LOL!



I tried placing my bananas is the fridge, but then they get all brown and gross looking... I tried those "green bags" that are supposed to prolong the life of your produce... but they didn't do much for the bananas. Maybe I should just freeze them like Eva does.



Hey Eva... how "under ripe" do they need to be for the digestive benefits?



GITOC
 
<blockquote>I tried placing my bananas is the fridge, but then they get all brown and gross looking? I tried those ?green bags? that are supposed to prolong the life of your produce? but they didn?t do much for the bananas. Maybe I should just freeze them like Eva does.</blockquote>
We put our fruit in the microwave or the stove to keep the ants away. I'm not sure if it would work for fruit flies, but it's worth a shot. :-)
 
I think the fruit flies are so small they would pass thru any mesh.



Here in space coast Fla, we don't have a fruit fly problem, we have a moth

problem. They get into stuff that is seeming inpermiable, including plastic

containers that have never been opened.



The citrus falls off the trees and eventually gets ground up by the lawn

mower. No fruit flies. Smells great when it gets chopped up.



In fact this is the time of the year when The Land Fills Smell Great. Truly.

Must be dumped pulped orange skins.
 
<blockquote>We put our fruit in the microwave or the stove to keep the ants away. I?m not sure if it would work for fruit flies, but it?s worth a shot.</blockquote>
Except you have to remember to take the fruit out of the oven before you pre-heat the oven. We've had cooked cantaloupe a few

times. :)

<blockquote>What happened to the good old mesh umbrella thing that people used to cover their food? Or only Southeners do this? </blockquote>
We've used these umbrellas outside to keep the flies away, but I never thought to use them indoors.
 
[quote author="Astute Observer" date=1213135456]The container may not be opened, but there is some opening there. When I buy food, I usually give it a slight squeeze to make sure all the seals are good. The pantry moth and flour beetle are real headachs. They do spice up the food a little, and they are all organically cultivated without the use of pesticide or hormone. ;)</blockquote>




I check the seals on everything now too...



Many times I've purchased food only to arrive home and find the seal has been compromised. Usually under the cap. I take off the cap, give it a slight squeeze to check the seal and I must admit... I have found many items not sealed. Now I can take the item to the front of the store, so someone else doesn't end up buying it...



Also, I know stores will take back the item in question, but who has the time or the extra gas for the car to be driving a $2-$5 item back to the store???
 
If they get really bad in my house, I set a glass of red wine out overnight. They are drawn to it and by morning the suckers are drunk and drowned. It usually takes care of all of them - sometimes I get a nasty piece of fruit in a bag or bring some home from the product department. Hate the little buggers.
 
Mrs. IR2 solves it this way - pour two glasses of wine and place them approximately a foot apart on the dining room table. Each of us takes a big gulp, shares our day, and repeats. Lo and behold, the fruit flies are not so much of a problem.



:-)
 
Hehe. Thanks for help. The cider vinegar traps with rotting banana are mildly working. most of the time they just land on the cling-wrap and don't bother to go in the punctured holes. The place is sterile of all food, dishes, sinks, and trash, so they are breeding at a neighbors. :)
 
Yeast paste works better than vinegar. Mix one of those live yeast packets with some water and some sugar syrupy thing (karo, honey, pancake syrup, whatever) and put that in the traps. Fruit flies go nuts for it.
 
<em>Some people uses a plastic soda bottle and cuts the top off near the middle, pours liquid bait on the bottom, and puts the top on inverted without the cap.</em>



All I could think of when I read this was, "It puts the lotion in the basket".



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