To have found hoovering fruit flies strangely therapeutic?

[DrPolidori]

woke up this morning to find infestation of fruit flies in my kitchen (I have tracked down the source, ds trying to be 'helpful" and putting away things that needed binning, in a VERY secret location!)

But half an hour of hoovering has left me feeling cleansed and happy? Fruit flies are really stupid. They cannot escape the power of the miele!

Anyone else have weirdy cleaning methods that make them happy?

I'm glad it was fun . Just a thought, if you put a pair of old tights across the nozzle, you could count how many you'd got.......

The best way pre-hoovering I found to get rid of them is to make a paper cone with a tiny hole in the point and place it in the neck of an old drinks bottle full of balsamic vinegar or red wine, securing it with tape.

They are attracted to the vinegar/wine, get in and can't get out. Very satisfying.

x post with my new soulmate ProcrastinatorGeneral

Am in awe at true insect sadism. I am an amateur, I say, an amateur.

NO- you are a true innovator.

I had this fabulous lilacy/purpley rug which I used to sit on for hours pucking bits of fluff/tiny bits of debris. I was in my element

Now I have a horrible red rug (I know I know...) which doesn't have the same feel :( The debris (I can't find a better word!) doesn't roll on the rug as it did with my lilacy/purpley companion. It sinks into oblivion.

I am desolate and a lost cause obviously

I feel for you shakey, I do. Nothing worse than being rent aprt from the object of serious grubbing

Thank you DrPolidori- tell me, is there a cure?

Apart from rescuing my ye olde faithful rug from the tip? Ooooh, where, it just MAY be infested with fruit flies?

Sit down shakey. No need to scamper after old loves. Consider how a few weeks of serious neglect will provide you with all the grubbing opps you need. I suggest you choose and out of the way area (perhaps under the stairs?) to neglect for a few weeks? Pop a fluffy rug there, and return to enjoy rug picking and grooming at your leisure!

My daughter used to hide bits of fruit, so I had to deal with the little feckers fruit flies a lot at one point. The summer my son turned one was a doozy, as she discovered that she could slide banana peel into a locked old cupboard in the kitchen. It was under the hot tank! Took me chuffing weeks to figure out what was going on!

oh, you clique with your high fives!

I Hoover moths. Fluttery brown bastards. I also have a large sticky triangle of my own invention with which to lure and trap them.