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Showing posts with label fruit fly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fruit fly. Show all posts

Thursday, March 11, 2010

"WHAT CAN I SPRAY ON MY TOMATOE,ZUCCHINI,AND EGG PLANTS TO GET RID OF FRUIT FLIES THAT SUCK THE LIFE OUT OF THEM ??"

"WHAT CAN I SPRAY ON MY TOMATOE,ZUCCHINI,AND EGG PLANTS TO GET RID OF FRUIT FLIES THAT SUCK THE LIFE OUT OF THEM ??"

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Since you’re going to eat your produce, you don’t want to use anything toxic obviously. Vendors like Gardens Alive! sell these soaps or you may find them at a garden center (Safer is a popular brand). You can make a spray fairly easily. Fill a clean spray bottle or garden sprayer with tap water and add a couple of squirts of a liquid soap (Ivory dish soap is my favorite, but any will do. Just don’t get one with a lot of additives). Douse the affected areas heavily---until the solution is dripping off, let sit briefly then hose off with clear water. The soap acts as a surfactant and clogs up the respiration of insects. It will also serve to wash off eggs.
You may have to repeat this process as you will get the visible insects but could get new hatchings. Just check your plants each day, remove cracked or discolored fruit (flys like a crack in a tomato as a place to congregate). Remember to wash produce thoroughly after harvest.

Diatomaceous Earth is a wonderful thing and it is not poison and it will not hurt your plants nor animals. You can read more about it here:







There really is nothing better.I am allergic to all stinging insects and have to now carry 2 Ana kits and this is just the best stuff to rid them too!

Read More Tips and Tricks to get rid of Fruit Flies - Here

also have a look at other fruit fly related pages :

Fighting fruit fly males






In the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, fighting is observed among males as well as females. This movie shows a key feature of male aggression: the lunge. While lunging, the attacking male raises up on his hind legs. He then snaps down on its opponent, whom he tries to grab with his forelegs, thereby reaching accelerations of approx. 30 m /sec2. If successful, he holds on while the attacked fly tries to escape. Hoyer et al., Current Biology 18(3), 159-167.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

FruitFly Game



Use your mouse to flip over the fruit tiles trying to avoid the fruit flies. For each tile you flip over that has no fruit flies you will be awarded $1,000,000.

In the normal game there is no time limit. Take as long as you need to avoid the fruit flies. If you can find all of the fruit fly free tiles first then you win.

In the timed game you only have 30 seconds to find the fruit fly free tiles.



Friday, March 5, 2010

How to Get Rid of Fruit Flies the Fun Way

How Do I Get Rid of Fruit Flies (and have fun at the same time)?

Ok, there are many ways of getting rid of these flies. Some people swear by one method, while others will use another way. Eventually, you will get rid of them if you remove the source of their food, namely the fruit.

However, no one says you can't have any fun getting rid of those annoying fruit flies.



Killing Fruit Flies The Fun Way #1

The Vacuum

I take perverse pleasure in vacuuming up those fruit flies. By far this is the easiest way I have found. Not only is it the fastest way, but it's alot of fun.



Killing Fruit Flies The Fun Way #2

The Oven

The next best method is to trap them. Now there are many kinds of fruit fly traps that you can make, or buy, but the most fun way to trap them is to use the oven!

That's right, trap them in the oven, turn it on and watch them fizzle!



Killing Fruit Flies The Fun Way #3

The Hair Dryer

Thirdly, another great way of having fun while killing fruit flies is the hair dryer method!

Don't try to blow hot air on them, that doesn't work. What you need to do is to put the air intake part of the hair dryer near the fruit flies. They will get sucked in and fried at the same time!

Killing Fruit Flies The Fun Way #4

Hairspray

Just point and shoot. This method doesn't necessarily kill the fly, but it will make their wings stiff so you can collect them them easily.

Killing Fruit Flies The Fun Way #5

Windex

That right, spray some Windex on to the fruit fly infestation and watch those suckers croak. Not the best way, or the most fun way, but it works.



Now finally, if you are not in the mood to have fun, you can get rid of fruit flies in 5 mins with this 1 easy trick - click here



Lastly, for those of you 'don't want to kill' and have pity on those poor ugly fruit flies. I mean, after all it is your fault that the fruit flies are there right. if you had eaten the fruit on time, but I digress.

Here's a nonviolent way of removing the fruit flies from your house for those of you pacifist types. click here