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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...
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...
How to Start a Self-Sufficient Homestead
Image by Fareed Mindalano, DALL-E 3. Self-sufficient homesteading is the practice of living independently and sustainably on a piece of land, producing or providing for one’s own needs, and minimizing reliance on external resources and systems. Homesteading offers...
Growing Your Own Superfoods
Superfoods are foods that have well above average nutritional or health promoting properties, and you can't beat'em in terms of how easy and low energy they are to grow for what you get back in nutrition. Because of this, to me they are one of the most important...
Genetically Modified Organisms and the Environment
Over the 20 years of the commercialization of GMOs, not only have they failed to deliver higher yields as promised, but according to numerous reports, they have also led to serious destruction of the environment through causing increased use of toxic chemicals, and...
Why Water Self-Sufficiency is Vital
When NASA astronomers search the distant skies for possible life-holding planets, the first thing they also look for are signs of water. All life is dependent on water (as far as we know) and the development of our own civilization has historically occurred around...
Local Food Security: Challenges and Opportunity
“If the world is saved it will be saved because the people living in it have a new vision.” –Daniel Quinn No one wants to admit that the food supply we depend on could ever be in jeopardy, or that food prices are not as stable as they once were. We want to take...
Remaking the Way We Make Things
An increasing number of engineers, architects, landscapers, chemists and various other professionals from every walk of life are beginning to see real solutions to our most pressing “environmental” problems (or what I like to call “massive life support system that...
8 Tips for Increasing Your Resilience
In my family we call being prepared for inevitable economic and environmental instability “resilience”. We’ve been inspired largely by the concept of Permaculture, which is a design system based on ecological principles for designing resilient, locally based,...
