By Mostly fruit flies appear to come out of nowhere which has even led to some people believing that they come into being of impulsive supernatural generation from rotting fruits and meat. However, this belief has been disproved and the truth of these nuisance tiny insects has been discovered. Fruit flies also known scientifically as Drosophila Melanogaster have a strong sense of smell and are capable of smelling any rotting fruits from far. Contrary to popular opinion, these flies don’t come from fruit’s inside but outside when fresh supplies in your house start to go past ripe. They will find their way to your fruits if they are not in your counter or in refrigerator.
Their small size allows them to get through to your kitchen or house regardless of having closed the doors and the windows and their entrance would be through the tiniest crevices around these openings. When the fruits in your house start rotting or become overripe, they will start fermenting which results in the production of alcohol, the major attraction for fruit flies. Although at first just a number of fruit flies will get into your house, with time they gobble up fermenting fruits and lay hundreds of eggs in the meantime. These eggs turn into larvae within a few hours and the next thing you will realize is swam of flies all over your house.
An alternative source of fruit flies in your residence could be from the
shopping you come with from the nearest grocery. Fruit flies can hide
themselves on the skin of fruits and vegetables, especially if some of these
have started rotting and thus the eggs that have already been laid hatch in
your house. In case you have planted tomatoes in your vine and leave to
over ripen, you could be harvesting these flies along with tomatoes as well.
Basically, unrefrigerated fruits and vegetables whether stored at home or at
the grocery have the capability of attracting fruit flies.
Fruit flies have never been welcome to any household as they are amongst the most irritating pests. To get rid of them completely, fruit fly traps are effective when planted outside your house although they are not so effective due to physical factors like wind and rain. Most people opt to use natural alternatives. One of the best ideas is planting marigolds in your compound. Research has proven that fruit flies dislike the scent produced by marigolds and can’t stand staying in an area which has plenty of these plants. You can get seeds from your local home improvement store or consider getting them from specialty online stores.
You need to be careful with the methods you select. If you are going to select traps, ensure they are effective by researching on several models. It is important to read online reviews or consider getting recommendations from people who have used such traps before. For instance, you can ask a neighbor who has been having the same problem what kind of trap he used to avoid falling prey to biased reviews. For complete product reviews, click here.
They began stealing from me lately and there isn’t really much I can do about it in this case. I am talking about those pesky fruit flies which will not leave my drinks alone. Each evening I take time to unwind a bit. I will take a drink, and a book, out to my deck for an hour or so of relaxation. Out there I read about some subject that I find interesting. Once in a while I set the book down, and watch what is happening around me, or just listen to the sounds in the air.
I have a small flower garden across the front of my deck. In among those flowers hangs one of my hummingbird feeders. The flowers I plant in that garden have the kinds of colors that attract hummingbirds and butterflies. That’s on purpose, of course. I really enjoy watching those creatures flittering around.
The deck chair that I read from sits right behind the feeder, so when a hummingbird swoops in to grab a drink, I can pause a moment from my reading to watch it. I am always fascinated by how they hover, everything absolutely motionless except for their wings, which are a blur of movement, but this story is about fruit flies.
They force me to take a close look at my drink every time I raise my glass. It seems they want to steal it from me. And just about every time I go to take a sip, I find them floating around in there. Just the other day I found three of them at one time. Guess they are not smart enough to know they will drown.
When you are outside like that, you can’t do much to get rid of fruit flies. At least not in a situation like what I experienced lately. Those little guys are everywhere. The only time you find these gnats outdoors in a situation where you have a treatment option is when you find a cloud of them around a particular object; this might be a discarded bit of fruit like an apple core, or more likely around a trash can.
The best way to trap fruit flies and get rid of them in the case of fruit is just pick it up, and toss it in a trash receptacle. The flies will follow it, but once it is removed, the gnats go away. For the trash can situation, you can only wait until your local removal service comes around to collect it. Hopefully you keep your trash can someplace where it doesn’t bother anybody to have those fruit flies swarming all around. Inside your home is a different story.
Fruit flies like to lay their eggs in fermenting organic materials which means any type of food stuff that lays around a while, and starts going bad, the fermenting stage is just before it begins to rot. When you see a cloud of gnats inside, it is a clue that something starting to rot is very near.
The most effective treatment is to find whatever it is they are attracted to, and get rid of it, and then clean the surface where it lays real good to ensure no juices remain. You will still see the gnats for a few hours after that, but they disappear rather quickly once their breeding material goes away. Chances are by the next day you won’t see more than one or two fruit flies flying around your house.
