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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

by | Feb 23, 2024 | ,

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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