It's official. I hate fruit flies.

[HopeHoops]

They ride in on all kinds of produce (and can produce a new round in like 6 hours or something). The fuckers are EVERYWHERE! One just flew past my monitor and I almost wiped out my ice water swatting at the fucker. I'm not even sure where they're coming from. No produce is out for them to use right now.

Yes. This was a rant.

[LynneSin]

1. That'll teach you to be a fricking vegetarian!!

By eating all meat you wouldn't have an issue with Fruit Flies!!!

[HopeHoops]

9. You know. That's the most compelling argument I've ever heard for abandoning it.

I'm still not going to do it, but it's easily the most compelling.

[HereSince1628]

2. This trick works for the adults (I tried it)

place a piece of ripe fruit --I used banana--into a bowl.

Cover it with a piece of stretched 'saran' wrap...poke a few holes in it with a needle.

The flies can get it through the holes, but cannot exit.

Once you have them inside the trap, you can choose to let them go outdoors, or send them to THE CREATOR, your choice.

[pipi_k]

6. I tried this...

and yes, it does work.

Also, a bowl with apple cider vinegar if no bananas are available.


One time we had such an infestation that we got a couple of those electrified tennis racquet bug killer things. Zap! Zap! Zap!

Bug eradication and exercise program in one.

[HopeHoops]

10. I use an empty bottle with cider vinegar. It gets most of them. Fly strips work too.

[840high]

25. Thanks.

[yawnmaster]

3. they are edible. Oh, and we were taught in school that they spontaneously generate...

wherever there is fruit around.
especially very ripe fruit.

makes sense.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Look for the potato or onion sack you forgot about.

[OriginalGeek]

5. Well, that's what they say...Time flies like an arrow

Fruit flies like a banana.

[ohiosmith]

7. No pudding for you!

[HopeHoops]

11. "If you don't beat your meat, you can't have any poontang" - Pink Floyd

[yawnmaster]

33. how can a banana fly without wings? eom

[OriginalGeek]

37. Flap those peels

like there's no tomorrow.





on the other hand, if there's no tomorrow, what's the point? Nobody ever said bananas were smart.

Cookies. Cookies are smart. I see smart cookies all the time.

[LiberalEsto]

8. I just demolished a fruit fly epidemic in my house

Get a plastic bottle with a narrow neck, like a soda bottle.

Pour in red wine vinegar to a depth of 1 inch.

Add a small piece of fruit (optional)

Make a small paper cone with a piece of paper, and tape it so it stays that way.

Cut a teensy hole in the tip, just big enough for a fruit fly to get it.

Place the cone, point down, in the opening of the soda bottle, making sure that there is no way for a fruit fly to get in except through the little hole at the bottom of the cone.

They will flock to the bottle and get inside, but won't be able to get out.

Mwa ha ha ha haaaaaa!

[HopeHoops]

12. The sinister laugh is essential.

[yawnmaster]

34. And then where do you set them free...or...

I detect a disturbance in the Force.

[LiberalEsto]

40. Like the Hotel California

They can check out any time they like, but they can never leave.

(Until I dump the contents of the bottle somewhere in the back yard)

[pinboy3niner]

13. Who is I hate fruit?

And if he can fly, you'd think he also would be able to come up with a better username.

[HopeHoops]

14. If I_hate_fruit flies, it's probably because of this...

[LiberalAndProud]

15. I've been dealing with the same nuisance.

I have no idea where these came from, but it got pretty ugly for a while. That ant that runs around on the screen here evey now and then? I've tried to kill it about 300 times, thinking it was part of my bug problem.

[HopeHoops]

16. I'm not quite at the point yet, but I may have to put up the pull-out fly strips.

You know, the ones that come in a small shotgun cartridge casing - yellow lecithin paper in a coil. That knocks out about 80% of them in a day or two.

[Wait Wut]

17. DUDE!!!

I had the same exact problem last nite! I almost lost my damned mind trying to kill the fucker. And...why is it the more you swat at them the more they get in your FACE!!!

[HopeHoops]

18. They love the laptop screen. It really pisses me off. So do the mosquitoes that get in.

Fortunately, I love Tabasco...

[IcyPeas]

19. they can enter your house via plants and flowers too

[HopeHoops]

20. Screw that. We've got cats. The fruit flies just come in through the holes in the screens.

If you own cats, you KNOW what I mean.

[Liberal_in_LA]

21. keep a bit of fly paper around (kept in store by bug spray and mouse traps)

[HopeHoops]

22. I just get the pull-out shotgun cartridge fly strips.

[Liberal_in_LA]

32. I've gotten those also.

[Odin2005]

23. Geneticists love 'em, but I hate 'em!

I usually get them from bananas, ARRRRGH!!!

[HopeHoops]

27. Bananas are notorious for that.

[graywarrior]

24. I just almost accidentally ate one

I bleached my mouth out.

[HopeHoops]

28. Just think of it as "extra protein".

[graywarrior]

30. Gag

[HopeHoops]

31. Running joke in our house, well, outside of it mostly.

[yawnmaster]

35. that is just one you caught yourself almost eating...

imagine how many you have eaten without knowing.
or their young (tiny tiny mag...errr...cute little worms).
or their eggs (raw, or scrambled).

[graywarrior]

38. Dry heaving.....

[yawnmaster]

41. wouldn't be dry if you had eaten some fruit flies! there would be a cloud of happy flies about...

your head!

[graywarrior]

42. I'll bet you swallow lots of fruit flies being that you're a master yawner.

[yawnmaster]

43. and spiders...

an uncountable number of gnats (too small to count)
1 pillbug (roleypoley) on purpose
some ants (in chocolate)

and some unknown thing I felt moving around in my stomach when I woke up.

[graywarrior]

44. A roach?

Or an earwig.

Last few minutes.

[Robyn66]

26. Here is my remedy

We had a serious fruit fly problem and this really took care of the whole thing within a few days.

put 1/3c cider vinegar and 1/3 cup DAWN dish soap in a small bowl and put it on a shelf or on top of a cabinet within the vicinity of the problem. The little buggers are drawn to the vinegar but die in the soap. It has worked every time for us!

[HopeHoops]

29. I've done that, but I usually just use an empty plastic bottle (like 12 oz soda).

[Samjm]

36. Hate them too!

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http://www.theidearoom.net/2009/09/fruit-fly-trap.html

[HopeHoops]

39. "And we was both jumpin' up and down yellin' 'KILL! KILL! KILL!' Sergeant came in pinned medal on...

... me and said, 'Your our boy.' Didn't feel too good about it."

[nolabear]

45. Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana.

One of the first jokes I ever felt cool "getting".

[HopeHoops]

46. Bananas can give you the farts. Do fruit flies fart? Inquiring minds need to know.

That is a cute joke, by the way.