Terry Collins writes:
I would prefer to stick with a fly trap with attractant aimed at fruit fly.

With odours, sometimes the weirdest things turn up results. Last week a
zoo was describing how a particular brand of commercial perfume dabbed on
a rock or tree sends their leopards into a swoon. And on the weekend tv an
expert dingo trapper said that he places his traps around a station's
stands of fuel drums because wild dogs seem to have a strange attraction
to the smell of diesel. I think that was on Landline.

Nothing wrong with using BOTH attractants and repellants. Did you hear
Don Burke say that a common mistake is to hang fruit fly traps in the
branches of the tree you're wanting to protect? He says the traps should
be placed at a distance away from the tree for best results.
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John Savage (news address invalid; keep news replies in newsgroup)