i don't wanna kill the fruit flies!
Posted by rainbowdust919 on Aug 10, 2009 · Member since Nov 2004 · 1198 posts
we have fruit flies. i was looking online to find maybe something to put out that they wouldn't like... like maybe something that is stinky to them that would make them run away? instead all i found were a bunch of ways to trap them and kill them!
is there no way to just repel them instead of kill them?
(i know some of you gave suggestions to sarah for some other types of bugs, but they were way far back in the chit chat thread i think... i know hanashi had some suggestions, would they work for what i'm wanting to do?!!!)
From time to time I will have some fruit flies appear in the kitchen. Usually, they appear if I leave overripe fruit on the counter or food scaps in the kitchen drain. They will also be attracted to your trash can if you don't keep a lid on it. I just remove what they are attracted to & they will dissapear within a couple days. Makes you wonder where they came from in the first place.
Keep your fruit in the fridge, and take out your trash as often as you can to keep peels etc. out of the house.
They defecate and copulate all over your food. I don't mind killing them but they're too small to.
http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=24872.0
Humane Fruit Fly Trap
Works pretty well, I would also recommend cleaning your fruit bowl-and wherever else they're hanging out with soap and water, and letting it totally dry. Then, make sure you don't have any overripe fruit around. I have a ton of them, too. All this is on my list for today.
http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=24872.0
Humane Fruit Fly Trap
That is awesome.
http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=24872.0
Humane Fruit Fly Trap
That is awesome.
It works, too!
(this is keri... i'm on the computer brittney usually uses because she's sleeping in the bedroom where the laptop is)
oh oh oh! thank you for that! i'm going to go make a humane fruit fly trap now! maybe when i come home they will be mostly gone? and from reading the reviews, maybe i should leave it around for a day or two to trap the babies?
We have wasps around here, by the millions!!! I got this phoney wasp nest and hung it by the door and now they don't make their nests where we enter the house anymore. But they are everywhere else. I used to be petrified of wasps because when I was a kid I jumped into a nest and was stung something like 40 times!! OUCH!! When I started working in the forests there was no way to avoid them and the first year I was stung about fifty times in the six months I was working that summer. When I ran into a nest I would always do the same thing, drop everything and run screaming through the woods with a bunch, flock, herd, gang, whatever flying after me and continually stinging me. I would swat at them and try to kill as many as possible. In the last few years I have adopted a different approach and now when I find myself surrounded by a group of angry wasps I stand still, (it took some courage to do that the first time) and talk softly to them, apologizing for disrupting their home and politely telling them that I am going to get away from them. I then slowly walk away continuing to talk to them. My fellow workers all think I am nuts but I have been stung only once in the last three years (there is always a mean guy who doesn't respond to kindness every once in a while). Now I wish this would work for misquitos!!!
printerguy, that sounds scary!! If you find a way for that to work with mosquitoes let me know!! I found 2 on me when i was in the living room, they keep sneaking inside!!!
I live very near a town called Malakwa which is an Indian word for the land of the giant misquito. Enough said. :(
We have a hornet's nest above my daughter's patio door. They don't bother us though, so we leave them.
that humane fruit fly trap worked so well and so fast! it is AMAZING! thanks guys! i was so excited that i called my mom just to tell her. haha!
i think that it got all of them. i set them free out by the dumpsters since i figured they'd find food and like it out there. but i did have a little bit of trouble convincing them to leave their peach.
i set it up again just to make sure i got all of them. if in the morning i don't notice any more, i'll throw it away. thank you so much, guys!
I live very near a town called Malakwa which is an Indian word for the land of the giant misquito. Enough said. :(
Bees, wasps, mosquitos, and midges all travel in "swarms". So do people in malls. They are equally irritating.