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Small flies are ruining my food :(

JeanJean Heartbroken papa bearGatineau, QuébecRegistered User regular
edited August 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
More precisely, they are ruining my peaches. Is theyre anything I can use to make them go away from my delicious fruits?

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  • EskimoDaveEskimoDave Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    are they still on the tree? Are they aphids?

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  • JeanJean Heartbroken papa bear Gatineau, QuébecRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    No, those are peaches I bought from the grocery store actually.

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  • EshEsh Tending bar. FFXIV. Motorcycles. Portland, ORRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Are they fruit flies? Very tiny?

    If so, it probably means you have a dirty kitchen. Clean. Especially your drains.

    Otherwise, keep your fruit in the fridge.

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  • TL DRTL DR Not at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Put some orange juice or red wine vinaigrette in a bowl. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap, and poke holes in it with a toothpick. Fruit flies check in, but they can't leave and end up dessicated acidic corpses to serve as a warning to others.

    And clean your kitchen. Boiling water down the sink may help if there isn't another obvious source of food for them. Can't hurt to refrigerate the peaches, either.

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  • perspexacityperspexacity Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    I've only had this problem with fruit that's starting to go off.

    Well, that and the time I thought it would be cool to keep a slice of the tree my father had recently chopped. In a bag. Hanging off a hook over my bed. Over my head. Ugh. Bad childhood memories.

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