When we packed for Fourth of July weekend, we didn’t know that we would be extending our stay by an entire week. So we only had a couple days of clothing, which we kept re-washing. When we got home, there was an old banana on the counter attracting fruit flies. It was so bad that four days later we were still swatting at fruit flies all the time. They just wouldn’t leave.
That weekend, Elisa mentioned some chores that she was dreading. One of them was to clean up an onion that was rotting out in the garage. Gramma Sophie checked it out. The onion was very spoiled, and all the onions around it were bad too. The onion bag was supporting the livelihoods of millions of fruit flies. She cleaned up the onions and the mess. After that the fruit flies disappeared from the house. The onion had been the culprit all along. We were silly for thinking that a single banana could invite that many fruit flies to stay in the house for an entire week. Gross!
July 22, 2010 @ 1:47 am
Ohhhhh, I HATE FRUIT FLIES!! When I was a junior in college, my roommate put a bag of potatoes next to the washer/dryer unit in our apartment (don’t ask me why). It was tucked wayyy back there, and she forgot about it, and none of us knew about it. We got this horrible fruit fly problem. My roommates’ boyfriends would put duct tape on their hands, inside out, and just swat the walls, smooshing a ton of them. Oh, it was so dang traumatic. I’m glad you found the source. Shudder.