[Sca-cooks] Dealing with Stinging Insects

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> We did something similar last week when we were having a problem with some 
> fruit flies that was not going away. Got an empty glass pint jar, put about 
> 1" of sherry in it, put foil over the mouth of the jar (and put the canning 
> ring down over it) and then poked a dozen or so fruit-fly sized holes in 
> the foil. Worked like a charm. It seems that fruit flies really like cheap 
> sherry!

My roommate's 'no-kill' fruit fly trap involves balancing a gallon jar 
upside down 
over a saucer with a bit of fruit in it, in such a way that there is an 
opening for the flies to get in. They will eat and fly up but can't 
figure out how to get out; once a day you take the jar outside, still 
upside down, turn it over and leave it there (replacing it with another 
jar inside for the nonce). Clears 'em out in a few days and can 
encourage a healthy crop of spiders where you dump out the flies. :)

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