Fruit flies, redux
I’m getting kinda tired of the fruit flies; you can’t even set down a drink at our house and expect to be able to pick it up again sans files. Ick.
So I started an all out campaign. I fully cleaned the kitchen again and made sure there were absolutely no dirty dishes about (I’ve been hard core about that for a week now with little results). We got all of the food - even the potatoes - out of reach.
And I’ve started the fruit fly traps. My goodness, that’s not a lot fun. The first 24 hours with a fruit fly trap caught us a couple of hundred of the buggers. Now I’ve got two fresh traps set out and nothing else for them to munch on.
And I’ve started vacuuming. While it’s nearly impossible to catch a significant number of flies with your hands, you can easily suck them into the vacuum. It’s effective and it feels good, too.
Last year when we had this problem, they died off because winter came. Unfortunately, that’s a long way off.
July 19th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Have you tried good old fashioned insecticide? I’m thinking a couple of bug foggers set off in the morning as you leave for work would take care of the little buggers toot de suite. Like DuPont says, without chemicals life itself would be impossible.
July 20th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
I haven’t taken that route because the biggest problem room has been the kitchen. Also, I’d be concerned about having the baby near the fogger.
But also I’m feeling optimistic about this approach.