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Get Rid of Fruit Flies With These Easy Fruit Fly Trap DIY Ideas

Get Rid of Fruit Flies With These Easy Fruit Fly Trap DIY Ideas

A simple homemade fruit fly trap DIY solution can protect your fresh fruit from annoying and destructive pests. Image by Egor Kamelev, Pexels. Fruit flies are tiny tormentors that can turn any DIY fruit fly trap into a graveyard of pests. With their knack for rapid multiplication, fruit flies require diligent trapping to control populations and prevent infestations in households and orchards. A single female vinegar fly can lay 500 eggs in her brief two-week lifespan. Given the right conditions, just a few flies sneaking in on harvested produce can explode into an infestation within days. While they rarely damage fruit directly, these pests facilitate the spread of bacteria and fungi that accelerate decay. Their persistence and ability to spread disease make controlling fruit fly populations a necessary task. Though tiny, fruit flies inflict considerable economic damage by promoting spoilage and contamination. A study from the University of California San Diego found that Drosophila...

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Build Homemade Chicken Coops

Learn about homemade chicken coops through a reader sharing how his family built a new coop using salvaged materials and traditional techniques. My wife, Monika, and I were recently surprised to find 18 chicks huddled in a cardboard box under a lamp in our Washington state garage. Our granddaughter, Kati, and her husband, Niko, had bought us the chicks; they knew that we had tended chickens as children, and they guessed we’d welcome fresh eggs. Niko suggested he could build a lean-to against the garage for the chicks. Because space was no consideration, the idea of a lean-to changed to a free-standing chicken coop. Kati sketched her idea of walls based on those familiar to her from her childhood. The chicken coop plans morphed into an Austrian mountain hut measuring 10 by 10 feet. The idea was to build from the land as much as possible, as a homesteader might’ve done…
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