3 fun ways to kill pesky fruit flies …

Solution of vinegar and soap

I was just reading a funny post about how this lady hated fruit flies, and guess what … I DO TOO!

Hate them.

I don’t like them hovering my bananas, and I certainly don’t like them to hover over my garbage bin and then fly over to hover over my fruits!

Apparently, there are scores of people who have tested ways to kill these buggers (don’t you just love this British term?) and here are the environmentally freindly ways to do so.

1. Alcohol kills 

One guy found out that a few inches of wine in a standard wine bottle works extremely well - as he found out the next morning, after he took a glug of wine with some dead flies floating in it!! The little bugs love wine and they will dive into the bottle only to drown after having a few hick sips. Apparently, the reason why they can’t fly out of the narrow opening of the wine bottle  is because these lovable  fruit flies can only fly side to side, not up and down. 

Here’s what he says “I don’t like killing anything, but I salve my conscience by shaking the bottle regularly, to drown them so they don’t swim for hours, struggling…”

Note to self, look INSIDE the alcohol bottle to make sure there’s no drowned animals before having a go at the hoo-hoo-hoo. However, if you already ate these bugs … accidentally … consider this. They are a good source of uncooked protein. 

2. Wash / hand slap trick

This same wino guy tried another tactic which he said worked well for him. He washed the  fruits right away and then hand slap the flies as soon as they appear, right before they settle in and procreate. 

3. A deadly cocktail of apple cider vinegar and soap

If you are too lazy to wash the fruit or kill hand slap the silly buggers, then you might want to try this instead. Leaving a mixture of foamy, soapy apple cider vinegar solution on the table next to the fruits. It seems the pesky flies are attracted to the vinegar. But the foam traps them and they die. Something you can easily try at home.

Speaking of insects, I found that they drown easily in soapy water. If you are a sadist, you can try picking up ants, cockroaches, bees, whatever takes your fancy and slowly release them into the soapy water … to test my theory. There’s one insect I truly dislike with passion, and that is mosquitoes. Just one mosquito can cause so much damage to a baby. One day, I found multiple Mozzie bites on my precious baby’s skin. Horrified I tell you. So this fuming mommy sat there, waiting patiently with soapy wet hands. I took a slow easy swipe at the nasty mozzie just as it was about to make another meal out of my kid and it promptly got caught in the foam. Then, I walked to the bathroom and triumphantly release the struggling mozzie into the soapy water and watched it slowly sink down into the abyss.

Bliss! No more bites that night. 

So, if you don’t like nasty insects like me, you know what to do.

Peace!

Image and info taken from Re-Nest.com

Tagged with: fruit flies • insects • protein • raw food

Filed under: Environmental Issues • General • raw food

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