Kristel's Blog

and living in a world of fruit flies. WTF?! is all I have to say! I emptied out my fridge before I left; put all the garbage down the shute; I’m actually clean without Michelle so no dirty dishes or the likes lying around… grr. The only thing I can think of was that I didn’t clean my sink well enough before I left, something’s in the drain, and they decided to party while I was away. And now I have friends coming for the weekend and I want to party… without the flies!!! So I googled how to get rid of fruit flies, and tried to adapt my fruit fly catchers I bought in PTBO to them. So here it goes:

The first method is the standard fruit in a glass with holey saran over top. Of course, I stick the sticky catcher to the glass, dump some pineapple in, put the saran over the whole thing, poked a few holes… and after oh 6 hours or so, I have caught two. They fly up to the saran, try to get out, bounce off into the sticky, and I’m set. But I’ve only caught two.

Method two. Try the cone thing that Zoe & Gav did, put the sticky in the cone just in case… and it hasn’t worked yet. Removed the sticky, still doesn’t work. THey liked the pineapple in the glass, why not with this method?

Okay, so then I decide it’s time to actually follow the instructions on the box for method 3. I have three sticky things, might as well have three methods. I put the food in the sticky thing, put the sticky thing on a surface they like, walk away. Didn’t catch one. Seems they like to sit on the *edge* of it before they hit the sticky part. Great.

So at this point, I was pretty fed up. Flies are gross, I don’t want them. So I tried method 4: human strength. This includes waiting for them to land, whacking them with a book and cleaning the surfaces 47 times. It also includes taking the sticky out of method 2 and running around like a madman and catching them in the sticky part. Total count with this method: 12 from the bathroom + 10 from kitchen = 22!

Still have right now 5 or so still flying around the kitchen, 1 around the front hall, 1 around the bath/livingroom, but that’s way better than it was. Going to flush the sinks hopefully to flush out their nests while I’m at it (Vinegar & baking soda hasn’t failed me yet) after this… or lunch. Kinda hungry.

Anyways, the conclusion on how to get rid of fruit flies: go on a reckless abandon with a heavy book & random sticky thing and play halo with your imaginary friend around your apartment. Hey, it works.

On a side note, no talk radio that I can’t understand last night, or a creepy something-bad feeling, so maybe Caitlin was right… scary thought.