If I put a banana peel in the plastic kitchen waste bag on the counter I am almost guaranteed to find a fruit fly or two hovering over the trash in about an hour.
I don’t see them any other time. Do they smell the banana and come in through the screen, or are there fruit fly eggs in the banana bunch when I buy them? I don’t see fruit flies at the store.
I usually vacuum them up and put out a “Window Fly Trap” by PIC and that takes care of them – until I put another peel in the trash.
Have you discovered their source?

Topics: food, trash, insects, Pesticides, flies, UVC radiation