Fruit Flies Are Amazing

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Of all the bugs in the world, I find fruit flies to be the most mysterious. They seem to literally show up out of nowhere and they are hard to get rid of. When you see them in your home, you can assume a piece of fruit has passed it’s date of safe consumption, but don’t let the name of the bugs confuse you. There are other reasons why they may appear in your home and it might not have anything to do with fruit.

I have had fruit flies in my house a few times, and normally, it is because the bananas have gone bad, or because I left strawberries sitting out in very warm weather and I didn’t know they would go bad so fast. Fruit flies seem to appear and swarm, and I don’t know where they come from. Other times, they have come and I can find no fruit around, and that confuses me. I am usually a very clean person, and I have to have my kitchen just perfect most of the time. Nothing bothers me more than a messy kitchen.

What I found was that sometimes fruit flies come for things other than fruit. They are often there when you have anything lying around. Most of the time you may not realize that you have food where it should not be, and you are probably puzzled by the fruit flies as much as I was when this first happened to me. What I didn’t know was that there are tiny particles of food that will remain in the upper part of your sink drain. That’s all it takes to draw them in.

If you have a garbage disposal, you should make sure all food is gone when using it, and also to clean it quite often. If you don’t, you may find you have more problems with fruit flies. If you are sure there are no pieces of fruit or even vegetable lying around, it might be your drain. If you want to get rid of the fruit flies, you should rinse water down the drain, and then let a half of a cup of bleach sit in the drain for a while, and then rinse again. This should take care of your problem, at least for a while. If that doesn’t work, check out your dishwasher for the same problem. If you still find nothing, you may want to call in pest control to get rid of them.