From: M.Champagne@cellbio.duke.edu (Marc Champagne)
Newsgroups: bionet.drosophila
Subject: Re: Attack of the Fruit Flies
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 18:36:23 +0100
Organization: Duke University Med Ctr

In article <345C9EB6.14D4@erols.com>, crg@erols.com wrote:
> Help! Our house is under attack by Drosophila. Every year at this time
> we make wine in the garage. Every year we have a Drosophila invasion
> for a few weeks, mainly in the kitchen, but then it stops. This year,
> they've taken over and things are only getting worse. Anyone have some
> suggestions, short of nuking the place, how we can get rid of them? I'd
> promise a bottle of home-made wine for any solution but it's against
> federal BATF regulation to give it away. So, a bottle of commerical
> wine perhaps?
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Dave Zuchero
> crg@erols.com

----- Make some traps:
in a container, pour some wine (they love it) and block the opening with an index card rolled to make a funnel. Make the small end small enough to keep them inside (1 to 2/16th of an inch). Tape well, and every now and then tap the bottle so that you drown those little evil ones.

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