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  • From: bmn@iglou.com
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] fruit flies
  • Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:00:30 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, October 14, 2008 07:03, D Stubbs wrote:
> This time of year with processing so many kinds of fruit in the house the
> 'sanitation' necessary to have no fruit flies at all seems never to be
> quite reached. Just takes one to ruin a batch of home made vino. I
> recently learned a great old method - keep a few small jars of cider
> vinegar with a couple drops of dish soap around - it attracts & drowns
> 'em
> good. Del

I can vouch for how easy and effective this method is. I bred & attracted
a mess of fruit flies last year for a web page I'm creating dealing with
pests. I'm currently selecting from a series of photos to throw up on one
of my sites. This method works and costs pennies.





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