tough survivability of fruit-flies
 

Every summer while canning the fruit of the harvest, I encounter
problems of fruit flies in the kitchen.
I never want to spray chemicals so the best solution I have come up
with is to lure the flies into
a large plastic container for which in the "stillness" of the morning
I throw a airtight lid and release the
contents outside. That manages to clear out the house for at least a
day.

One looking at the flight dynamics of fruit flies would think they are
easy to kill in the air but
they are actually tougher than killing other flies. And I once noticed
fruit flies near a spider web, as if
the fruit flies were "teasing the spider". For they would land on a
thread of the web and as soon as the
spider lunged at them, they would simply hopp off and take to flight.

So Nature really built a resilient fly in the fruit fly, which looks
awkward in flight.

One of my problems is keeping things outside the refrigerator and not
have the fruit flies attack it. But
that seems hopeless for unripe apples. So I may just abandon trying to
rippen unripe apples indoors.
Maybe feed them to the horse and llama, and forget about trying to
rippen unripe apples.

Every year I store away green tomatoes and can have fresh tomatoes all
the way up to Thanksgiving and
beyond and where the fruit flies are no longer around.

So fruit flies are really a menace, and just have to put up with them
every summer.

Archimedes Plutonium
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