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Fruit flies

LagstonLagston
in Being Raw

I’ve got fruit flies flyin’ all around my house. What’s up. I don’t even have that much fruit out. Most of it is in the fridge. Scraps in the trash with lid. Anything I can trap em with or spray somewhere?

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  • TropicalRawEllaTropicalRawElla

    I try to live in harmony with my fruit flies…I love all animals, insects included… My fiance on the other hand, does not agree with me and hates when our little visitors drop in… but I’m hoping he’ll begin to see the beauty in our little flying friends…they’re like little fairies. :)

    As far as getting rid of them, just don’t keep ANY fruit peels or anything they like out and that eliminates the problem every time. We live by the beach and they’re everywhere here.

    Love & Light,

    Ella

     

  • LagstonLagston

    Thank you ladies. I’ll have to give the trap a shot, or maybe I’ll start seeing them as little fairies ;)

  • QuioraQuiora

    I am vegan, so I don’t believe in killing animals either. But I think when they are threatening me or my food supply and I can kill them with my bare hands, I have a right to. I do use (poison free and odorless, made with only mineral oil) fly paper to catch the fruit flies though, because otherwise I would be killing dozens a day which would take forever.

  • STENESTENE

    What me and my roommate do is keep a bag in the fridge, and put all of our fruit peelings,etc in it. when the bag gets full we just take it out. We don’t have any problems anymore with fruit flies. We’d get them a lot in the trash can before from all the peelings,etc.

  • padawanpadawan

    you can keep your scraps in the freezer if you have room. i use the apple cider/detergent method, and when that fails, i take out my light saber( vaccuum) and zap the little buggars into oblivion. shanti

  • BeetboyBeetboy

    I adore animals and I am relatively new to this lifestyle so I am still spraying what flies and fruit flies I get in the house. Oooops! I need to change my ways…!! I actually have a great close up shot of a fruit fly on some tomatoes I grew a few years ago, he looked pretty cute with his little buggy eyes and his little wings!

  • screamingherbscreamingherb

    Isn’t there some way to make them all just fly away? It seems a bit cruel to trap them in a bottle. My gran used to do that with wasps and we would creep up and liberate them when she wasn’t looking. I loved my gran but she could be cruel to her fellow creatures. I say live and let live.

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