Has anyone noticed if they feed on fruit flies? This would be a more fun alternative to my current methods of "extermination". :)
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These plants will feed on any and all creatures small enough to fit inside their traps so long as that bug touches 2 of the sensors in the trap.
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I think it would....I have not seen fruit flies in my house since I have bought these...I do not like leaving plates of food exposed for more than 5 min unattended so I love them( mesh food covers) I got 2 of them
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Find the source of the fruit flies and throw it out. I used the trap and 3 days later no more flies. We had a bag of potatoes under the sink that was the source. The trap worked!
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No. Fruit flies are not controlled with soap. They are probably breeding in some rotting plant material near your house.
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Try putting your hand in and straightening or turn inside out and straighten. I don't know where the person attracting fruit flies is keeping the fruit. I hope my frig never gets that hot. I absolutely love the banana bag. I have never had spoiled fruit. Try putting the bag with bananas IN the frig and you won't get fruit flies.
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These aren't reusable, but I would not want to bother with cleaning and refilling. They really trap a lot of fruit flies very quickly. Once it fills up or the fly activity goes down you toss it.
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One yellow card has caught more than 15 leaf miner flies over 3 days. So far, the new leaves seem to be spared of recent leaf miner infestation. I am cautiously optimistic at this point!!
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I don't think that bait would be attractive to fruit flies. It's really designed for house flies and blow flies.
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I wish they did, but my experience is the ones that don't "go away" to die remain and can have quite a stink. My experience, however, is that most seem to go "out" and never come back. I believe that all of these baits work about the same. Spread the bait packets and then watch for new signs of the critters. Good luck.
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I have raised praying mantises before and they might not be able to escape, but I think the fruit flies might. It would be a close call on both of them. The screen is very small, but so are they. I used a piece of very small mesh material to and doubled it over on the top of he jug I had them in. Maybe you could put something like that on top until they grow just a little.
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My gut feel is no.. because the insecticide is absorbed and kills insects eating the bark and leaves, it's also going to be in the flowers and fruit.. Just to be sure I went out to look at the label.. it very clearly says "not for trees raised for food".. If you have fruit tress with problems, topical sprays before the fruit set are the only way.. or buy lady bugs and preying mantis and release in the spring.
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Also, they don't eat things in the traditional term. It'll catch an insect and it'll be in the trap for a while before one day you realize it's been digested. Don't try to sit and watch it eat something because you'll be there a LONG time. Also, you can't put a fly or insect in its trap and have it stay and be digested. My kids tried more than a dozen times and if it doesn't catch it itself,it'll crawl back out. :)
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I think so - I plan on throwing the whole mess in a plastic shopping bag, tying it in a double knot and then disposing of it and good riddance. The whole thing stinks to high heaven and I haven't seen an appreciable decrease in flies around here...call it the end of a disgusting experiment. Onward.
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As I remember about a day.I really like mine. I don't have any flying or crawling insect. I think I it was a few hours before I saw a beetle-looking insect crawl out of my closet. I put one in there because I didn't want moths eating my wool sweatersI think it deters rodents too.Missie
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Haven't seen any in mine yet. I've seen everything else in there including millipedes, spiders, a few beetle-like bugs including Asian beetles, but so far haven't seen any earwigs in my house, though they are in my garage and outside. I'd almost bet they would attract the earwigs. I'm finding bugs in there that I didn't know were in my house, because of the carpet. These things are awesome, I love them.
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That is specifially why I bought it. We have pet turtles and because of feeding them fruits and veggies, we get the fruit flies too. They aren't easy to whack, they are hard to see, but it does work on them. I haven't had an occasion to use it for mosquitoes yet.
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It can't be metabolized in a mammal's GI tract; ergo, no calories. I don't think any living thing could actually can digest it; it'd be like digesting rocks, more or less. It's nice to think that a bug might get very obese on it and die of a heart attack, but...I doubt it. lmao