On Sep 2, 10:30?am, "Keith Stelter" <ke...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Sheldon" <PENMAR...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > 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.
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> > Are you certain they're not crotch flies? hehe
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> > 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.
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> >http://www.ca.uky.edu/entomology/entfacts/ef621.asp
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> I have to disagree with your last statement.
> Here in Michigan we still buy a lot of our produce fresh from farmers.
> I'd like to think that my house is kept very clean, but we still get
fruit
> flies a few times each summer because the produce isn't being processed
and
> packaged for a supermarket. There is virtually no way to quarantine the
> produce because if you put it in the garage or outside you will only
attract
> MORE fruit flies. We wash our produce and immediately throw away the
bags
> or cartons that it comes in, but invariably some of the little buggers
(or
> their eggs) will be inside sweet corn shucks or in bunches of grapes.
> They are a nuisance, but it's not like they sting or anything. We just
put
> out a few custard cups full of vinegar with a little bit of dish soap in
it,
> and they are gone in a day or so. I honestly don't think that having
fruit
> flies occasionally should be lumped into the same category as having
> roaches, mice, moths, etc., which ARE indicators of poor housekeeping.
Everyone has some *occasional* fruit flies... I didn't lump in with
anything, you're the one lumping in. If you're putting out fruit fly
traps, reading in things that aren't there, and taking personal
offence then perhaps your fruit flies are more problematic than
occasional. I suggest you read the info at the link I posted.
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