Pets are not allowed here, neither are plants or children. The only animals we will see are penguins, seals, a few types of birds and (possibly) whales. There are no insects either. Occasionally a few bugs make it in with the fresh fruits and veggies, but they can't live outside (and we go through the freshies pretty quickly), so they don't last long.
I am assigned to work in building 121. Building 121 is an electrical supply warehouse upstairs (where I work) and beverage storage downstairs (and the band room). All the soda and beer in cans and bottles on campus is stored on the ground floor of building 121. At some point over the winter, a number of beer bottles were broke/cracked/leaked or something and created a big puddle.
So I'm not exactly sure how, but a whole lot of fruit flies found this puddle and are living in our building. I killed two flies yesterday!
As I understand, the plan is to lower the temperature in the building to the point where it kills the flies, but not so cold as to freeze the soda and beer.
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We had a plague of fruit flies at my office recently. They're very resistant to direct assault and I'd wager that the eggs will survive, even if the adults don't. The only remedy is to completely cut off their food supply. Ours seem to have been breeding in wet cardboard—they abated once it was removed.
They also really like vinegar, and you can make traps out of a fine basalmic (they wont touch the distilled white, too refined I suppose).
We put Balsamic Vinegar with a little dish soap (Dawn)in a dish-they are allured, but the surface tension is lowered, so they drown. It's worth a try!
you can make a simple trap by putting a piece of ripe banana or some apple cider vinegar ( i suppose red wine vinegar or balsamic work too!) in the bottom of a cup or jar, and then make a paper funnel that fits the mouth of the cup.
put the point down into the cup. the flies get in to get at the bait, and they can't get out.
it totally gets rid of the pests! (and it's pesticide free too.)
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