We have a problem.
We have a swarm of fruit flies in our kitchen. We cannot get rid of them. We have no produce out on our counter. We have no food out on our counter. We just have fruit flies swarming around our counter -specifically the sink area. I've cleaned the sink and garbage disposal - thoroughly and multiple times. Paul has set out a cup of vinegar and a cup of water/liquid dish soap per Google's instructions. And still, the fruit flies cometh.
God? Is that you? Are we being plagued?
And darn if I don't want to grab a jar of ether and start suffocating the little devils.
Remember? High school biology? When we got to sedate the fruit flies - the Drosophila - in a test tube and then tap, tap, tap, them out onto the lab table to sort them while looking through a magnifying glass? Remember?
And if you didn't work quickly enough with your sorting, they'd start to wake up and then you'd have to wave the ether-soaked cotton ball over their tiny little bodies to knock them out again so you could finish your experiment?
Except, inevitably, some of them would reach way down inside themselves and gather the strength to get up and fly far....far far away? And then you'd be mad because your ever-so-important experimental statistics would be messed up because you let one with white wings or red eyes get away?
Remember?
Remember how back in the eighties, fruit flies were merely a means to an end? A project to complete to get an A in high school biology?
Plus, they were like the funnest unit EVER....
And now? They are still a means to an end. They are the means by which I am going to end up a raving lunatic.
I am off to Menard's today to look for a big ole' can of "Fruit Fly Be Gone."
Any other suggestions?
2 comments:
Have your husband,a plummer,or whoever,to check the drain under your sink and UNDER THE HOUSE.We had the same problem (only with the bathtub--not the kitchen sink).There was some problem with the drain under the house--the part that was suppose to hold water had rusted ,leaving the drain open under the house so the bugs could just fly up it into the bathroom...but the drain wasn't leaking.....it was fixed,and no more fruitflies.
propwashz-
Thanks so much. We'll give that a try.
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