Mainly, I think, because I have a lot of havested fruit and vegetables
in my kitchen - plums, apples, tomatoes, etc - I seem to get more and
more little fruit flies each year.

I wondered what environmentally friendly methods urglers use to keep
levels of these small flies under control at this time of year.

Janet G

Janet Galpin wrote:
Mainly, I think, because I have a lot of havested fruit and vegetables
in my kitchen - plums, apples, tomatoes, etc - I seem to get more and
more little fruit flies each year.
I wondered what environmentally friendly methods urglers use to keep
levels of these small flies under control at this time of year.

Find where they breed, usually in decaying fruit/veg. When I returned
from my holidays, as soon as I moved the fruit bowl containing apples
which I had forgotten, the flies all took off. Keep you fruits/vegs
covered and make sure none are damaged/rotten at this time of year
espcially.

"Janet Galpin" wrote in message
...
Mainly, I think, because I have a lot of havested fruit and vegetables
in my kitchen - plums, apples, tomatoes, etc - I seem to get more and
more little fruit flies each year.

I wondered what environmentally friendly methods urglers use to keep
levels of these small flies under control at this time of year.

Janet G

Fly Paper.

On 16/9/06 17:12, in article , "Russel Sprout"
wrote:


"Janet Galpin" wrote in message
...
Mainly, I think, because I have a lot of havested fruit and vegetables
in my kitchen - plums, apples, tomatoes, etc - I seem to get more and
more little fruit flies each year.

I wondered what environmentally friendly methods urglers use to keep
levels of these small flies under control at this time of year.

Janet G

Fly Paper.

Yes, we have that in our own kitchen and a zapper in the tea room and its
kitchen. Someone told me today of a fly swat that is electrified so that
you zap as soon as you hit the fly. And in reply to David, I found fly
swats in our local and delightfully old-fashioned-but-efficient ironmongers.

--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/

Someone told me today of a fly swat that is electrified so that you zap as
soon as you hit the fly.

Yes I was at the receiving end of one last week and it packs a punch. My
grandchildren had a good laugh at my expense as I thought it was a toy
tennis racket. Certainly made me jump so hate to think of the effect on a
small fly.
We tend to get the flies around the compost bins and occasionally in the
house but generally just ignore them as they do no harm.

In reply to Janet Galpin ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say :

Mainly, I think, because I have a lot of havested fruit and vegetables
in my kitchen - plums, apples, tomatoes, etc - I seem to get more and
more little fruit flies each year.

I wondered what environmentally friendly methods urglers use to keep
levels of these small flies under control at this time of year.

Spiders. Fruit flies are very light compared to their size and they
stick well to spiers' webs.

Don't clean up webs straight away, leave them for a day or two, then
get rid of them. Boris will then spin another very soon, which will
be more effective than a two-day old one.

Times flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. Groucho Marx, I
think, but it's true. Leave a banana out of its skin in the utility
room and the fruit flies will no longer bother you in the kitchen :-)

The electric zapper which looks much like a kid's tennis racquet,
which I use for wasps (because I hate wasps), is very effective
against fruit flies, they fry on the strings with a satisfying
crackling noise and give off a puff of smoke, but I don't like doing
it. Fruit flies pose no health hazard that I know of, so, unlike
chavs and wasps, they don't deserve to die at your hand.

JMHO.

Sorry Janet, posted to your email by mistake!