Fruit Flies

[livefrommombasa]

Fruit flies! They have invaded our house. They are crawling everywhere! All in our compost and everywhere else. So what do you do? Make a fruit fly trap! It was so much easier than we thought it might be

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[stone_reader]

I was amazed at how well this worked. I was also amazed that I could google something like "how to kill fruit flies" and have instruction for how to make this pop up. The internet is amazing.

[livefrommombasa]

That's essentially what I did and I was equally amazed. What a strange world we live in.

Now if only I could figure out how to get rid of the pillbugs that are eating my spinach and turnips without nasty chemicals, I might be the happiest woman on the planet.

[stone_reader]

Have you read those books on using tea extracts? My mom has done pretty well with those. (Well, I should say that the gardener my mom hired to use non-chemical pesticides has done pretty well with them, but what can you do.)

[livefrommombasa]

I'll try it. They have worked well for me with other pests and plant diseases. Somehow I thought pillbugs would be a bit more resilient. Now that I think about it however ... they're just bugs. Right?

[livefrommombasa]

Wait, let me knock on wood now. Please don't let there be a giant pillbug come eat me in my sleep for insulting their mighty insect race!