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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.