Ok, I think I've finally struck a blow against those evil fruit flies. I have recently been attempting to dry out my compost. Not completely because no one wants dry compost, but it's definitely been too wet. I've been trying to hide the fruit from the fruit flies. So what I've done is topped up the compost with some old soil and thrown in a nice serving of torn up cardboard. I then mixed. The fruit flies were not happy. Not happy at all. That was yesterday and I've since noticed a great reduction in fruit fly activity around the compost. Now they've decided that the banana peel in a tub is looking good after all. I'm not sure how many are in there but there are a fair few sniffing around it. I want to know why the ones sniffing around it aren't actually going in. Are the holes too small? Or are the holes too big and they've popped out again. Maybe there's something delicious on top of the lid that is holding their attention. At the moment the banana trap is next to the compost heap but I'll try and it move it further away to see if can lure them out. I'm determined to get rid of these damned fruit flies. For now I think we're even again.
Mine rise as a cloud every time I go near the compost. Nasty, but maybe they do important work.
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