Do you want to pet my fruit fly?
April 14th, 2008 | by sophie |We are dealing with an epidemic of fruit flies. Yesterday, when Zak opened his worm composter, a cloud of flies big enough to swallow an entire house (at least it seemed that way) escaped. Thank God I insisted that the compost stay on the balcony (Zak was inclined to use it as a coffee table)… Enough made their way into the house that I found one in my water glass this morning. They’re everywhere: in the kitchen, the bathroom…
But the funniest thing was when Zak searched the Internet to try and find a way to get rid of them. He found a site advocating “humane” ways to get rid of flies: trap them in a jar with a banana in it and release them into the wild once a day. Fruit flies! We’re not talking about seals here, or even pigeons. They’re fruit flies! We can’t even kill fruit flies without guilt nowadays?
Maybe we should tame them and build a fruit fly circus. You never know, maybe that’s the money-making scheme we’ve been looking for!
3 Responses to “Do you want to pet my fruit fly?”
By Danielle on Apr 14, 2008 | Reply
Quand j’habitais à Sélestat, notre maison était construite près d’un ancien poulailler… nous avions des mouches… mais des mouches!!! Beurk!!! J’en ai rarement vu autant dans une même pièce!!!
By sophie on Apr 14, 2008 | Reply
Et je te gage que quand tu réussissais à en attraper, tu ne les relâchais pas dans la nature…
By Kevin McConnell on Apr 14, 2008 | Reply
We went through that and never really did find a great solution. You go for the patio method here in Alberta and the worms freeze in the winter. We had fruit flies everywhere inside when we were composting…not pleasant. A solarium type thing that is heated or insulated at least would be great, but we are still in a patio. For now we have put this level of enviro on hold till we have a bigger place or more tolerance for the flies