Seriously, our house has been inundated with flies for MONTHS. It is utterly ridiculous. I'm about to lose my ever loving mind. I can NOT figure out where these stupid flies are reproducing. Yes, reproducing. The most annoying part of it, right now, is that there are little bitty baby flies EVERYWHERE.
Don't flies start out as maggots? I don't see any maggots...
Is it the litter box? Is it the cloth diaper 'dirty pail'? Is it that mountain (that seems to grow as fast as I can knock it down) of dirty dishes in the sink? Is there rotten food hiding in there? Is it because of Wizmo's potty training issues? Is there some dead thing hiding somewhere in my house that I don't know about? Wouldn't that cause a smell too? Is it the kids? The mounds of laundry that make my floors look more like rolling hills? Is it my husband? Me? My toothbrush? Did someone just fart? Am I up to 20 questions yet? No? Now? No? Should I ask a few more? Are you even reading anymore? No? Dang.
Well, since no one is even reading anymore..
I swear I'm not that bad of a housekeeper.. Am I? Sure, I go through what I like to call 'phases' of being more dirty than usual.. but not to the point that my home should become an insect love nest. I suppose the fact that I'm afraid to do ALL the dishes because I just don't know what might be lurking in the bottom of the 'dirty side' of my sink should have me concerned.. The 'clean side' isn't so bad.. I mean, I wash the diapers at least once a week (usually more like every 2-3 days).. Perhaps my kids are just leaving random bits of fruit around to rot and thus attracting these nasty bugs that way.. Hell, I don't know.. I just don't get it.
We've put up the sticky paper and there's LOTS of dead flies on it.. and still, they reproduce. These things are worse than rabbits. The one effective method I've found for killing the babies? (One just flew by my head..)Leave out some booze (doesn't matter what kind.. beer, wine, liquor.. I find dark beer or red wine work very well), just a little in the bottom of the bottle, can, or glass and they will flock to it and drink themselves to death. Still not good enough though.
I don't even want to think about how many we might be eating in our sleep..
I'm starting to think I must smell like a ginormous walking cow pie or something because I feel like I live in a swarm of 'fruit flies'. Does that make me more like a piece of rotten fruit?
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Sweetie its not just you. I have them to. It's gross. I think one big place they breed he is my trashcan. YUCK!!!!!
We have us some fruit flies. It always happens during canning season. I read yesterday that the plant 'rue' makes them go away. But who knows where to get rue?
Oh.my.dear.GOD. we have a massive amount of fruit flies right now, and they just appeared out of NOWHERE. Of course, after they were already HERE, one of the melons I had bought decided to head South and provide them more fodder... UGH.
Supposedly? If you make a funnelly THING outta paper and put it in the top of a bottle with a bit of juice or whatever wherever you see them, it's supposed to trap them in the bottle.
Though, knowing *my* luck, they'd either find a way outta their and I'd just be FEEDING them more... or my 2 year old would want to liberate the little nasties. YUCK.
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