Why the flies flurrying around your fruit bowl are not fruit flies – and how to get rid of them
Written by Natalie Parletta from the Guardian
Vinegar flies can get out of control quickly. From ditching your fruit bowl to using apple cider vinegar, try these simple hacks to rid your kitchen of the pinhead-sized pests
Most of us are familiar with the pesky little flies that hover around fruit bowls and food scraps or get tipsy floating in a glass of beer or wine. What is less commonly known is that these little bugs are NOT fruit flies: they’re vinegar flies (Drosophila melanogaster), otherwise known as ferment flies.
Some people may not even recognise “true” fruit flies – the ones that decimate orchards and threaten Australia’s $16.25bn horticulture industry – because they’re bigger than the vinegar fly they’re commonly mistaken for.
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Written by Natalie Parletta from the Guardian
Vinegar flies can get out of control quickly. From ditching your fruit bowl to using apple cider vinegar, try these simple hacks to rid your kitchen of the pinhead-sized pests
Most of us are familiar with the pesky little flies that hover around fruit bowls and food scraps or get tipsy floating in a glass of beer or wine. What is less commonly known is that these little bugs are NOT fruit flies: they’re vinegar flies (Drosophila melanogaster), otherwise known as ferment flies.
Some people may not even recognise “true” fruit flies – the ones that decimate orchards and threaten Australia’s $16.25bn horticulture industry – because they’re bigger than the vinegar fly they’re commonly mistaken for.
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… we have a small favour to ask. More people are reading the Guardian than ever but advertising revenues across the media are falling fast. And unlike many news organisations, we haven’t put up a paywall – we want to keep our journalism as open as we can. So you can see why we need to ask for your help. The Guardian’s independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our perspective matters – because it might well be your perspective, too.
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