This is an easy one. You won't get rid of them by spraying or with fly
strips. Somewhere there is decaying food. The problem will be where to
find it. If you watch where the fruit flys come from, that should lead
you to it. The flys especially like decaying fruit (suppose that's how
they got their name). As soon as you locate the decaying food and get
rid of it, the fruit flys will disappear.
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:35:33 EST MAPedtke@cs.com writes:
> To Fellow Master Gardener's
> I am answering questions to the Yard and Garden line . Today I
> received a
> call from a husband/wife who live on a farm in Carver Co. They said
> they
> have hundreds of small gnat or fruit flys in their house. He wants
> to know what
> they are and how to get rid of them. They are flying all over the
> place and
> it is quite annoying. He is using the fly ribbon strips to catch
> many but
> they continue to come. This seemed to all begin about 3 wks ago.
>
> Thank you
> Mary Ann Pedtke
> Carver/Scott Co.
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