It’s easy to help these pesky pests on their way
Issue 47 : Mar/Apr 2006
Drat those wretched fruit flies! Here’s an odd, but quick and effective, way of dispatching them. Keep a plastic bag with a small quantity of cut limes or other citrus fruit in the galley. Leave the top open just a little. Soon you will have fruit flies inside the bag. Quickly snatch the bag shut, run a little salt water into the bag, and shake it up. The fruit flies will drown, whereupon you can set the trap out again and again until the flies are gone.
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