"Kevin and Karin" wrote in message
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We have a similar Darlek and have started to get lots of small (fruit?)
flies in the bin. When you take the lid off it's like a cloud of them and
they have started to get inside the house.

Should they be there and is there anything we can do to keep their numbers
down.........our new pond might help once we get the frogs, but that'll be
next year!


We've got the same problem. I've found leaving the lid off for 24 hours
does the trick, as they all seem to disperse then. I've also seen adding a
layer of 'brown' material as a suggestion.