I don’t think any household experience offers the same gamut of emotions from relief to revulsion as Discovering Where All The Fruit Flies Are Coming From
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in my experience beer works much better, white wine second best, then apple cider vinegar
I do a dish like a ramekin or similar, fill with beer until there's like a half inch gap between the lip of the cup and beer, then a little soap on the finger, dip into beer, then tight plastic wrap 1/2
then poke a hole in the center with a sharp knife or chop stick
key is to keep the plastic wrap tight and to have a small gap between liquid and plastic wrap. They crawl into the hole and are upside down on the plastic wrap and when they attempt to fly, they touch the liquid.
I had the worst fly infestation a couple of years ago. I assumed it was coming from mice that had died under the floorboards until I eventually discovered it was from a red onion that had fallen behind the freezer and decomposed...
Discovering Where All The Ants Are Coming From can also be a hoot (in my case they had built a massive and completely open-air nest on top of the water heater)
One hot summer I was puzzled by the awful smell in the room and after several weeks I discovered my ferret was stacking old chicken meat under my desk.
She was very disappointed when I got rid of her rotten meat stash.
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I do a dish like a ramekin or similar, fill with beer until there's like a half inch gap between the lip of the cup and beer, then a little soap on the finger, dip into beer, then tight plastic wrap 1/2
key is to keep the plastic wrap tight and to have a small gap between liquid and plastic wrap. They crawl into the hole and are upside down on the plastic wrap and when they attempt to fly, they touch the liquid.
By the time we finally figured it out, it was a horror show.
She was very disappointed when I got rid of her rotten meat stash.