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espo



Joined: 20 Aug 2006

PostPosted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 7:04 pm    Post subject: fruit flies Reply with quote

everywhere in the apartment....help!!!
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seoulsucker



Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff

PostPosted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 7:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Check your sink.
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Ya-ta Boy



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994

PostPosted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 7:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Or throw your over-ripe bananas in the garbage and take out the trash.
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brento1138



Joined: 17 Nov 2004

PostPosted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 8:02 pm    Post subject: Re: fruit flies Reply with quote

Once I tried to help my friend discover the source of the ongoing fruit fly crisis in his apartment. Also, it always had a strange smell. Finally, I found 2 huge garbage bags of trash in his closet. I mean, what the!!?? Confused
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Novernae



Joined: 02 Mar 2005

PostPosted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 8:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

We had a big problem over the summer. We kept the sink anally clean and made a few traps (rotting fruit, or wine, or vinegar (I think) in a bottle with a paper cone so the flies fly in but can't get out.) We kept that up long enough to break the life cycle and now we store all new fruit in the fridge (even bananas, which we just end up using for smoothies). The problem is that Korean supermarkets don't stay on top of the rotting fruit problem, so you bring new eggs home with every fruit you buy.
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thebum



Joined: 09 Jan 2005
Location: North Korea

PostPosted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 10:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana
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espo



Joined: 20 Aug 2006

PostPosted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 4:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

got the maintance guy round from school............he found some kimchee behind the washing machine the previous tenants had left....

...weve been here over a month!!!!

pm me if you want some! Very Happy
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Julius



Joined: 27 Jul 2006

PostPosted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 5:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You messing with my little friends?

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Sash



Joined: 08 Aug 2006
Location: farmland

PostPosted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 5:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Novernae wrote:
We had a big problem over the summer. We kept the sink anally clean and made a few traps (rotting fruit, or wine, or vinegar (I think) in a bottle with a paper cone so the flies fly in but can't get out.) We kept that up long enough to break the life cycle and now we store all new fruit in the fridge (even bananas, which we just end up using for smoothies). The problem is that Korean supermarkets don't stay on top of the rotting fruit problem, so you bring new eggs home with every fruit you buy.


Does that mean we're eating the eggs? Confused
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Hater Depot



Joined: 29 Mar 2005

PostPosted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 6:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey, it's protein.

I took to putting my fruit waste in the fridge this summer.
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Novernae



Joined: 02 Mar 2005

PostPosted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 6:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sash wrote:
Novernae wrote:
We had a big problem over the summer. We kept the sink anally clean and made a few traps (rotting fruit, or wine, or vinegar (I think) in a bottle with a paper cone so the flies fly in but can't get out.) We kept that up long enough to break the life cycle and now we store all new fruit in the fridge (even bananas, which we just end up using for smoothies). The problem is that Korean supermarkets don't stay on top of the rotting fruit problem, so you bring new eggs home with every fruit you buy.


Does that mean we're eating the eggs? Confused


Maybe. Apparently they can cause some nasty stomach problems. If they're in your sink you'll have to kill the life cycle. There really isn't anything you can pour down that will kill the eggs--bleach and boiling water don't kill them.

Someone else mentioned keeping their waste in the fridge; we do the same with our compost bin. We use a large lock 'n lock for compost.
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Satori



Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all

PostPosted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 6:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You're all fruit flies to me...
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Sash



Joined: 08 Aug 2006
Location: farmland

PostPosted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 7:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't have the fruit flies now, but I remember them in the summer. I think with they came with the yellow korean melons.

OH SICK. Shocked
oh well.
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