The Verdict

I set three traps to rid my apartment of these annoying fruit flies last night.

1. Banana pieces in a glass sealed with saran wrap. A tiny hole at the top.
2. Top of the 1L bottle was cut and placed upside down (like a funnel). Apple cider inside the bottle.
3. A glass of wine. I touched the surface of the wine with soapy (dish detergent) finger.

The wine got 4. Apple cider current has 1, and 2 hanging around on the top. But the obvious winner was the banana trap!!! There's gotta be at least a dozen of them in there. I only noticed 1 flying around today. Here's a picture of the best trap.


Pretty sweet!!! The only thing is that I don't know what to do with it now. I guess I'll take it outside to the dumpster and throw out the bananas. The fruit flies can go. I feel kind of bad for them now that they're not flying around and bothering me. So I don't want to kill them if I don't have to. :)

Fruit Flies... I kill you!

I HATE FRUIT FLIES. That's right I said it. I hate Drosophila melanogaster!!! (I'm sure all my genetics friends are all muttering reasons why Drosophila are scientifically beautiful specimens and I shouldn't hate them so much.)

Partly because I like fresh air, and do care a little about the environment; but mostly because I'm cheap, I've been living without AC for most of the summer. Therefore my windows are open most of the time when I'm home. I leave the balcony door cracked open at night too. (I do use a stick to keep it from opening too much. But now that I look at it, I can probably get through... Shh, nobody has to know.)

Anyway, I do have a screen and everything but these damn little creatures still get in. I wouldn't say my apartment is infested but when I'm drinking beer, the little fuckers drive me nuts. It's really annoying because I don't have fruits sitting out, and I take the trash out every morning. And I rinse all my bottles before I put them in the recycling bin. And my sinks are clean... WTF!

So I had to go to the tubes for a solution. I ran into this article on wikiHow. I decided to go with method # 5: the wine trap. They said to use sweet wine but I don't have sweet wine. So I used wine that went bad. Probably tastes like vinegar by now. But it's working!!! 3 down. I have no idea how many more to go. I think they keep coming in from outside so probably infinite. I should probably just set the trap on the balcony...

So here's my plan. Such a sad Friday night. But whatever. I'm going to set TWO more traps (different methods) and see what works best. :) hehe. This is going to be fun. Scientific experiment all on my own. Maybe it's the 5 beers I had that makes this so much fun.

To be continued...