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To: Rambi who wrote (52186)6/13/2000 1:16:00 PM
From: Gauguin  Respond to of 71178
 
>>How do you get rid of fruit flies?<< Boy. That's a tuffian. I bet Croc knows, for some reason. She seems to be a ridder. Maybe Ish.

Can you vacuum them? Vacuums ought to like come with butterfly net type scooper things.

You could turn the furnace up to 450.

We usually lure them into a lidded container with a piece of buxom fruit. Peaches are good. Then we take that outside. It might take three tries, and you have to do it before they generate, like pay attention to the clock, and I think that puts this technique out of range, for you. I know it does for me.



To: Rambi who wrote (52186)6/13/2000 1:22:00 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 71178
 
If you have fruit flies you have rotten fruit where they are breeding. Find fruit and dispose of properly- fruit flies with no where to lay eggs will soon die. They don't live long.



To: Rambi who wrote (52186)6/13/2000 2:21:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 71178
 
I'm assuming you already purged the house of all fruit. But the real trick is to get rid of, or quarantine , things that make a fruit fly think "fruit". Kool-Aid. Air freshener. Little Debbie. Tang. Latex paint. WD-40. Brut.

Brut flies.