Re: Possibly fruit flies indoors - luring & trapping them?

shaz likd  wrote:
> I've got these little insects / bugs / gnats.....whatever you want to
> call them....buzzing around our kitchen and in the office room at home.

Are you certain they're not crotch flies? hehe

Fruit flies are typically brought into a home as eggs on produce.  If
you toss your produce parings into a waste basket or uncoverd trash
can that's not disposed of often fruit flies will proliferate.  On the
plus side once hatched fruit flies live only 24 hours, so if you make
an effort to have reasonably clean habits regarding produce then you
wouldn't have fruit flies.  Produce should be washed as soon as it's
brought home and its original packaging disposed of outdoors.  If you
have fruit flies around your office it's a sure bet you're eating
produce at your pc and leaving the waste about... even wiping your
dribbles and tossing the tissue in the wastebasket will make a cozy
environment for fruit flies.  Also regularly wipe all surfaces where
produce has been set (syrups, preserves, and confections as well),
fruit flies are an excellent indicator of slovenly housekeeping
habits.

http://www.ca.uky.edu/entomology/entfacts/ef621.asp