well, this morning before we left for work my partner was putting in some fruit flies for calypso when he accidentally dropped the entire tub of fruit flies into the enclosure, we killed as many as we could and removed them from the viv and guessed that she'd eat the rest in her own time, Ive jut come back home on my dinner break to find lots (and i mean lots) of flies have somehow escaped frm the viv and are all over the room.is there anyway of somehow catching them, maybe leaving a certain type of fruit out so theyll go towards it?
help, fruit flies escaped!
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hallenhe
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You can try to attract them to fruit. Fruit flies are slightly misnamed - they're actually more "yeast flies", and like the yeasts that occur naturally on fruit that is beginning to ferment. Try bruising an apple or pear and they should be attracted to the bruised area within a few hours - that will get some of them to congregate and allow you to take care of them. But you're going to have a higher-than-average fly concentration for a few days, I would guess.
spadefish
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Here's how to catch fruit flies -- really, it works. Put out a small bowl (or several given the number of flies you have to catch) in the room. In the bowl, put about a half cup of cider vinegar and about a tablesppon of dishsoap. The flies will land in it and die. It really works. I had a colony of those flies living in my kitchen and this took care of all of them. good luck.
god, dont even talk about crickets, I hate the things.they get absolutely everywhere and when they escape they seem to turn up a day later about 10 times bigger than their original size!!, weve had a few escaped crickets and locusts over the years but i agree, I think myself VERY lucky that its fruit flies and nothing else!!
rmhawk
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jojackson
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LOL, I reckon I'd do a runner if I was destined to be dinner too! Id pack my little fly suitcase with my spare probiscus (wth do I know? Lol) and away on little wings and creepy little legs Id be, faster than the Bondi tram, fair Dinkum! 
Not much you can do but SWAT !!! That's know as 'The Aussy Salute' !
Not much you can do but SWAT !!!
That's know as 'The Aussy Salute' !
sandrachameleon
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the cider vinegar tip is a good one
wine and beer work too, but cider vinegar is better
wine and beer work too, but cider vinegar is better
littleliz
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The sticky fly papers do work. The big yellow sort that you curl into a cylinder seem to work best...I guess fruit flies like the colour or something LOL. I bought sticky papers from the pound shop! Worked a treat. I am sure that the vingar thing works for some flys but when we had fruit flies in the house I think I caught only two with the vingar???? Maybe we had odd flys?
haha ... that's what my husband said. I could just picture it. Go with the apple cider vinegar and dish soap. We get a lot of the flying ones this time of year with our fruit. A dish of acv/dish soap on the counter is a must.I would let my cham free roam
Another trick that really works is to get a wine bottle with a little leftover wine in the bottom. The flies are attracted into the bottle but can't fly back out very easily.
If you don't have a wine bottle, another bottle of similar shape--wide at the bottom, narrow at the top--can be used; a little honey or very ripe banana at the bottom works just as well as wine for an attractant.
I also heard just yesterday (or the day before, from Mike McGrath's "You Bet Your Garden" show on NPR) that he has used the sticky fly paper inside the wine bottle to increase effectiveness.
Here's a link to the fruit fly catching info on his show:
http://whyy.org/cms/youbetyourgarden/
If the link doesn't take you to the fruit fly info, you can do a search for it or for the March 16, 2013 show--that's the posting date, so I must have heard the show yesterday!
Good luck!
Sandy
If you don't have a wine bottle, another bottle of similar shape--wide at the bottom, narrow at the top--can be used; a little honey or very ripe banana at the bottom works just as well as wine for an attractant.
I also heard just yesterday (or the day before, from Mike McGrath's "You Bet Your Garden" show on NPR) that he has used the sticky fly paper inside the wine bottle to increase effectiveness.
Here's a link to the fruit fly catching info on his show:
http://whyy.org/cms/youbetyourgarden/
If the link doesn't take you to the fruit fly info, you can do a search for it or for the March 16, 2013 show--that's the posting date, so I must have heard the show yesterday!
Good luck!
Sandy
