To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Fruit Flies (off topic)
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 07:11:55 -0700 (PDT)
We found these clear plastic sticky strips that you
put in the window very effective - but I suspect this
was fungus gnats, not real fruit flies.
> Since this is a fruit group, I thought there might
> be some expertise here on how to control/get rid of
> fruit flies out of our kitchen. We keep trying to
> move resources for them, but they seem to keep
> finding something to sustain them (If nothing else
> is available they'll 'rest' on the Amaryllis plants
> I have in the kitchen window). They're a huge cloud
> as of now. Has anyone had this kind of problem and
> what was successful on getting rid of them for you?
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Lisa in Ashland Oregon
USDA Z7 - Sunset Z7 - 1800' - 19" annual rainfall