Anyone who has ever been sitting a few bananas left out or forgotten to change their garbage knows all too well the problem with fruit flies. It seems that once they've invaded your kitchen, you can not get rid of them. You can clean, scrub, tempting fruit and spray the garbage can with disinfectants, but keep coming back. One can not help but crawl just looking at them.
We have always had problems with fruit flies, one of the main reasons is that we live in aApartment and the law - must recycle. In which we live, we must keep our recycling containers inside until they can be disposed of once a week. If recyclables are not good enough to clean after use, are an ideal breeding ground for fruit flies. They love bits of rotting food remnants and seem to thrive in even the smallest amount. If fruit flies move in, just do not want to leave and eggs and whatever they can find what lay - Fruits and vegetables leftthe counter, sink drains, garbage disposals, empty bottles and cans, garbage bags and even mops and rags.
A Curious about some fruit flies:
- Can lay up to 500 eggs at a time
- Your entire life cycle is completed in about a week
- While considered mainly a pest, they have the potential to contaminate food with harmful bacteria
We all know that playing the removal of food, removing rubbish and cleaning an important role, but we also know howFruit flies move a piece of fruit and a swarm fill the air only to escape your attempts to kill. Where are they going to go? Of course, those who can not easily be captured or killed flying around, which will focus to a different place for the eggs and the cycle begins again to find the laity.
In all my experiments, I found the best way to capture and remove those who are fleeing is an easy trap using a jar, plastic wrap and a piece of food. Here's howWorks:
1 Get a small pot, you will be using again (like a baby food jar or something similar) and wash well. Make sure that there is a jar with a strange smell like a pickle jar or anything that used to use strong spices. You want a clean, odorless jar.
2 Take a piece of banana and put in cans. Why is a clean, odorless jar like - so that the banana smell will not be overpowered by other not-so-tempting smells. Banana seems to work better, butcan experience.
3 Place a piece of plastic wrap over the rim of the glass to make sure it is firmly attached and sealed at the edges. Then take a pen or pencil, and hit 4-5 holes in the plastic, just big enough to fit into a fruit fly. Once a fruit fly strip, you can not out. You would think that would just fly back through the holes, but will not be!
4 Place the pot in an area where you saw the fruit fly. Depending on the amount of fruit flyhave customers, you can see the glass filled within a few hours. After 24 hours you will discover just how bad your fruit fly problem is!
This simple, inexpensive and safe working perfectly, and if you do not want that glass can on public display, you can always slip behind the garbage can in the pantry or under the sink (Just do not forget!). You want to empty the cup every 3-4 days before eggs have a chance to hatch. While adult fruit flies can noteasily escape through the holes, their maggots can very easily, and also - they are disgusting to watch, crawl into the dish. You do not want to see these things crawling on the counter!
The cleaning of the glass should be no problem. If you have a good heart, you can choose, let them go outside. Personally, I spray the little buggers with bug spray, wash the windows and start the process again, even when I think about to bear fruit flies to left.
Forbad fruit fly problems, you want to use this method for more than two weeks to make sure we have captured most of the fruit flies. You may also want a pair of glasses can be used in different places. Before long, your kitchen will be back to normal.
