Fruit Flies no more

We had a bit of a plague of these pesky things for a few days.  With the tradesmen in and out, not only were the doors constantly open, but it was difficult to empty the bins and clean the kitchen as rigorously as usual (well, I hope I am usually quite rigorous) and all of a sudden there were a few in the kitchen.  And then there were a few more.  And then there were quite a lot.

For some reason fruit flies don’t seem to be affected by normal fly spray, and in the past I have been reduced to leaving glasses of cider vinegar about (sort of works a bit), swatting them (works when you can catch them), and vigilantly keeping all forms of fruit and veg in the fridge (works eventually, but can take weeks).

However R came to the rescue with something he saw on Tik-Tok. “Super Ninja”.  Just a tiny bottle – you take the lid off and leave in the room with the problem.

Within 2 minutes there were a few sniffing around the rim, and half an hour later there were dozens of them (I hadn’t realized the scale of the problem), fair hoatching around the bottle and queuing up for the opportunity to plummet to their deaths in the sticky liquid.

The next morning, there were no fruit flies either on the bottle or in the kitchen at all – and the liquid in the bottle was tinged with brown.  The menace had, quite literally melted away.

So – Super Ninja – stupid name, great product.  Well done R.