Ruddy ruddy ruddy ruddy FRUIT FLIES

[FrannyandZooey]

Help! Ruddy fruit flies getting worse and worse. There is no mouldy fruit in the house exactly, but we do save our composty stuff in a flip top thingy until it gets taken out each night - so that's usually full of smelly banana peels and so on. They can't actually get in the flip top thingy, I don't think, but they obviously like hanging around it. It's on my kitchen worksurface so it's horrible to have these little flies round the chopping board etc.

Every day I swoosh a lot out and every day new ones are either coming in or ? horrors ? are they breeding? It is getting worse, ie more every day. Where do they come from and how do we persuade them to stop?

LOL at webcam

I also considered setting up a video camera when we couldn't work out where the bloody hell they were coming from!

I had a fruit fly problem a couple of months ago and it turned out that they weren't interested in our fruit or even our bins, but a parsley plant that was growing in the kitchen.

I tried vinegar and even hoovering them off the windows (desparate times!) and notihng worked.

Put the plant outside, they disappeared.

Was so relieved I wasn't that skanky after all!

oh sorry for lack of updates
not much to report
will see how we go over the weekend

hopefully franny you will be mooing like a cow and be far too busy with a newborn to fret about minor issues like fruit flies

[hopeful]

yes I am trying to eradicate all contamination in house though in order to enable my cervix to open like a beautiful flower
I seem to have a blockage - perhaps I need feng shui in my birth corner
or perhaps Rentokil