What is it with these god damned fruit flies this time of year? Where do they come from? You bring home some tomatoes, bananas or apples, or even vegetables like onions, potatoes. These little bastards are all over the fucking place! I wash the stuff when it comes home from the store… STILL in a couple of days… there they are… these little fuckers all over the place; when you open the bag or go in the cupboard. I hate you fuckers. —Fly Hater
This article appears in Sep 27 – Oct 3, 2012.
Share your house with spiders…?
I what you mean OB, thier mere presence makes the kitchen seem dirty.
On a different front, the Westboro Baptist Church in a news release today, stated that “God hates Fruit Flies”.
Ewwwwww Ivan!
I kid Nursie >; ) I was BBQing on the balcony tonight. One eye on the steaks and the other on Shelob.
*SHUDDDDERRRRR*
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Hahaha! Charlotte wasn’t outside my door when I came home today…Now I’m wondering where she went! Worrying about the spider…Is this progress? lol
she’s in your house eating your bugs
It’s when you start crocheting a tiny little onesie – with 8 legs – because winter’s coming. That’s when you should start worrying.
i’ve had those little fucks for about 3 months now, it seems that the damp humid weather brings them around. little bastards drive me crazy when i’m trying to work. seems like fleas are here, but cat is clean, and never goes out. plus she get advantage every 3 months like clockwork.
My cute little Willow (kitty cat) will save the day Painey!
good one commander, and sucks, fleas are a nightmare. spiders don’t eat them, you must never , ever become complacent about the little blood suckers
Take an old glass, put a piece of fruit in it, cover the top with plastic wrap and secure with elastic. Then, with a toothpick, make several little holes in the plastic – the little fruit fuckers get in but they can’t get out.
As for spiders, I love the little darlings and so I offer this classic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc
THe 1 sure way i know to attract every fruitfly in your place is to pour a little applecider vinager into say a beer cap (any small container will do, you only need a couple of drops)
Place it down in your garbage can & walk away for 10 minutes or so, then quietly walk up to the garbage & spray a little raid & it’ll kill all the little ba’tards that have gathered.
it works quite well, go away again & check it again.
THis can be done every few days & it’ll kill the next generation.
A friend told me about fruit fly traps at Lee Valley, I bought them and they worked like a charm.
i have one of those little bell jar type things from buckarama. seems to be doing okay. there are about 100 dead little pricks in there right now. got a little bit of apple juice, and a couple drops of a secret formula in there. high potancy shit. they crawl in, get high and drown.
They are fruitful and they multiply. Their life cycle is so short, egg to adult in a week and the typical female lays about 500 eggs at a time. So they go from a small gathering to a riotous mob before you can say red wine vinegar. The little lushes love red wine. If you have one in your house, it’ll be in your wine.
I find wine vinegar in a small container covered in plastic with little holes poked in the plastic catches quite a few of them but not all. As long as you still have a couple, you can end up with an epidemic again.
The cooler weather usually signals the end of their reign. Another reason to love the autumn.
yeah… but where are they coming from? how they getting into my place?
sOMEONE told me they come up the drain. Maybe so. I always heard they came from an over ripe cherry. hahahahahah maybe so…
Their eggs are on the fruit you bring in from the store. I’ve been told you should always wash your fruit right away. Works for me and gf.
Wp
Mornig folks. This gave me a larf 😉
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=playe…
They are clearly the tortured souls of non Christians and unwed mothers reincarnated. It’s in the Bible, people. Hi Bogbox!
Re TTFNs the fruit fly trap, I also add some wine, because they like the yeast, so you can swish it around and drown them periodically otherwise they breed in the glass. I also occasionally disturb them and then suck them in to the vacuum. Old fashioned fly strips above the fruit bowl and/or green bin work too but ain’t pretty.
no they ain’t pretty, especially if they get stuck to your head. don’t forget them queer fellers too, furious^^ xox
One spray of Raid into the air before I go to bed, and when I wake up, they’re deady-dead-dead.
A fruit fly was about to fly into my salsa yesterday, I was going to swat it away but my kitteh swooped in and smooshed it with his paw then licked it up 🙂
we probably eat lots of them and don’t notice, they’re pretty small. sorry, mel, i know that will gross you out
I have a new trick that worked this fruit fly season. Step one, do the mason jar/apple cider vinegar/saran wrap with a pin hole trick. Then pour bleach down your kitchen sink drain and plug the drain. Wait an hour and flush with hot water; apparently kills the ‘nests’.
Yes, they are on the fruit you get from the store because I see them at the grocery store. They breed over a glass of wine? Pretty easy aren’t they?
better than wasps
so do they gross everybody out or what? they should zyclon “B” the containers carrying the fruit the little fuckers come from in Central America.
I’d say irradiate the fruit but then we’d have cashiers like this:
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working at the cockney greengrocer’s
Bring some spiders in the house and let them loose in the kitchen.
Also keep your shit clean. Within a few hours of leaving any food out, they’ll arrive. So you have to stay on top of it like a kitchen nazi. They’re sticking around because the weather is still favourable. It will be over soon 🙂
I keep a compost bucket in the kitchen so I’m doomed, crayons. Let spiders loose in the house? I’d hate to be a fly on the wall when that happens.