Thread: fruit flies
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Old 08-09-2003, 10:08 PM   #19 (permalink)
obediah
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I can certainly tell you how not to get rid of them.

Take a giant pumpkin (a few weeks after halloween is good), and stick it a a drawer, and then leave it there.

We did this in the dorm one semester, while several of us were working with fruit flies in a bio lab. Several found their way home with on clothing or whatever, and made a nest in that pumpkin.

We noticed them flying around quite a bit, and on a hunch I opened that drawer, and throusands of them flew out at once.

nasty stuff.
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