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espo
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
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Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 7:04 pm Post subject: fruit flies |
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everywhere in the apartment....help!!! |
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seoulsucker

Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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Check your sink. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994
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Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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Or throw your over-ripe bananas in the garbage and take out the trash. |
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brento1138
Joined: 17 Nov 2004
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Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 8:02 pm Post subject: Re: fruit flies |
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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!!??  |
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Novernae
Joined: 02 Mar 2005
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Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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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
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Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana |
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espo
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
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Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 4:47 am Post subject: |
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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!  |
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Julius

Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 5:02 am Post subject: |
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You messing with my little friends?
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Sash
Joined: 08 Aug 2006 Location: farmland
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Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 5:17 am Post subject: |
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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?  |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 6:24 am Post subject: |
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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
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Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 6:46 am Post subject: |
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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?  |
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
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Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 6:48 am Post subject: |
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You're all fruit flies to me... |
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Sash
Joined: 08 Aug 2006 Location: farmland
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Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 7:50 am Post subject: |
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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.
oh well. |
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