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Post by Cyndi on Aug 19, 2004 13:07:51 GMT -8
How do I get rid of fruit flies in an enclosure?
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Post by Merlin on Aug 19, 2004 16:53:26 GMT -8
Do you have potted plants in the cage? If so what you are seeing are probably fungus gnats. They inhabit moist potting soil. The best way to get rid of them is to let the top layer of soil dry thoroughly between watering.
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Post by Cyndi on Aug 21, 2004 10:16:57 GMT -8
No potted plants in his cage. And I'm pretty sure that they are fruit flies. I took everything out, and sprayed down everything with bleach, then rinsed, rinsed, rinsed. It seems to have helped. I am going to do it again today.
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Post by Tesa on Aug 22, 2004 7:05:02 GMT -8
We were plagued with those blasted things last year. Thankfully, I haven't seen any recently. The only way I could figure out to get rid of them was to remove the food after Thrasher was done eating, and then offer her more later on in the day rather than leaving it there for her to munch at will.
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Post by mar on Aug 22, 2004 8:26:01 GMT -8
A cheap fly trap is a glass of grape juice with a drop of soap in it. The soap breaks the surface tension so the flys land thinking it is a nice snack and drown. You can probably hang a cut open pop bottle under a shelf in the cage but as long as there is a food source they will stay.
Mark
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