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How To Kill Flies Successfully

November 30th, 2009 Posted in Flies & Gnats

Fruit flies are little pests that cause big problems in many households. Fruit flies are so difficult to deal with because of their small size and large numbers.

Easily attracted to many household items, these little buggers can make you feel like you live in a barn, but in reality there are many things you can do to prevent this feeling and this pest infestation.

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• Fruit Fly Behavior
• How To Kill Fruit Flies With Wind
• How To Prevent Fruit Flies

Fruit Fly Behavior

Fruit flies can be found anywhere and everywhere. Wherever there is food, you will find fruit flies. When food sits, rots or ferments in homes, schools, malls, restaurants, or supermarkets, the fruit fly will find it. They have little black bodies with 2 wings, like most species of flies.

The only thing remarkable about their appearance is their incredibly small size. When the fly finds food it typically eats and lay eggs, furthering the fly infestation into an endless cycle. Thus, if given the opportunity the fruit fly can lay over 500 eggs at a time. Their entire life cycle takes about a week to complete, once again making them a menace.

They breed in drains, garbage disposals, trash cans, on fruit and vegetables, on dirty and wet floors, in mops, and anywhere else where they find moist surroundings with readily available food. Thus, they aren’t only a big nuisance, but since they breed, eat, and thrive anywhere, they can spread disease.

How To Kill Fruit Flies With Wind

In your own home there are many traditional methods to deal with fruit flies. On such way is keeping all areas in and outside your home very clean. By cleaning trash cans, sinks, floors, and any other area that the fruit fly would be attracted to, it will help to stop infestations.

Keeping doors and windows consistently sealed will also help to prevent fruit flies from initially entering your home. Scientists have discovered new ways to help deal with the fruit fly problem, while at the same time shinning a new light on neural circuitry. If you have fruit flies in your home, then use a hair dryer or fan to instantly stop them in their tracks.

The air knocks them out and makes them perfect targets for a fly swatter. When the flies feel wind around them they freeze in an almost defensive position, completely stationary until the extreme wind stops. A fruit flies’ response to wind offers a new window to neural circuits, making this research have twice the benefit.

The flies have wind sensitive neurons that act similarly to the way they process the mating call of a potential mate. This discovery of wind sensitive neurons that insight defensive behavior may someday shed light on treatment for humans with mental illness, but not before more extensive research.

How To Prevent Fruit Flies

Another effort to deal with the fruit fly problem has been started by the Hawaii Department of Agriculture and the University of Hawaii. For years Hawaii agricultural sector has suffered at the hands of the fruit fly, until the recent fruitful returns of the fruit fly management project. By biologically controlling 4 species of exotic fruit flies, the pests have become under the direct control of the Hawaiian farmers.

By monitoring the population, requiring field sanitation, using protein bait, and releasing biological controls via parasitic wasps, Hawaiian farmers have regained their land and have had many successful crop seasons. Through educational programs between professionals in biology, sanitation, and farming. many great strides have and will be made.

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