Fruit Flies

AArrrgghhhhh! Fruit Flies! We have em, we don't want em.

When it was so hot and I was cooking in the house (that would be ME being cooked-not me actually making dinner or anything), a melon went a little bad. In less than a day, it went from future eats, to the trash. But, it left something for us . . . fruit flies.

Now, I am not going to say I have never seen a fruit fly. I have. Every once in a while I have had a few. Then I get rid of the offending fruit and they go away. NOT this time. I am getting a little tired of these guys. NO fruit in the house-yep, I got rid of it.

So, we went on the web and looked for solutions. Apparently, this is a common problem. How come I have never had em like this before? (Personally, I think it was the heat and they liked it so much, they stayed LOL) Several suggestions to rid yourself of fruit flies:

get rid of the fruit (duh)
clean out the sink with bleach for the trap
make homemade fly traps with rotten fruit
put a rotten banana in the back of the oven, leave the oven open all night. EARLY the next morning, quietly go in and shut the oven and turn it on (this one made the boys laugh)
live with them
put wine in a jar and put a funnel in it-they can't get back out (and then you can release them back into the wild . . . obviously from a lover of fruit flies)
it goes on . . .

I did read that fruit flies hate wind. They can't fly.

So-
I have made a homemade trap (a bowl with a cut up orange covered tightly with plastic wrap with tiny holes-they go in and can't get out)
bleached the sink-who knows what lurks in the trap
and finally . . . put the fan in the kitchen.

I stood back-yeah, this should work. Then, it struck me. I might be breeding a super duper fruit fly that can escape from plastic wrap and fly in the wind. Only the best will survive and go on to breed.

Yep, this could be a problem.