It's that time again, apparently.

Other than never having anything liquid in your home (even my dog's water bowl attracts them), anyone have any suggestions as to how to deal with this?

This might help. I hear it goes well with french absinthe if you get hungry.

I think I just drank one.

A fruit fly, not a frog.

Try the Czeckerland fire thing, maybe it 'll scare 'em off.




This works.
http://www.drugstore.com/products/prod.asp...t_no_pest_strip

Keep your drains covered, they breed there.
Don't let them eat.

keep taz out of your house. i bet he started the infestation.

My friend once had a vinegar mother in his house,
he burnt the house down to get rid of it but
it was worth it.

Whatever you do, don't let them drink.

I have no idea what a vinegar mother is, but it sounds disturbing.

It's like a sourdough starter.

Did his house taste burnt™?

I am told it's a spore and once your house has it you can't make beer, it makes a mushroom-like mass that smothers the beer and turns it to vinegar..
It is said: "The only way to get rid of a vinegar mother is to burn your house down, and it's worth it"

Heheh
Speaking of spore,
when a deer sits down in the woods she leaves an invisible eliptical mark on the ground,
it drives dogs mad and
hunters call it spore.

Like when a Pope xits in the woods.

You're making CG wet again.

Djirk, do you realize that your "friend" with the burnt™ house is a pussy? Acetobacter and wild yeasts can smell fear. You have to slap that xit around so it will respect you...

Again?

Revelation 6:8:



Plague? Check.

Wild beasts of the earth? Check.

Remember, that's the *Fourth* (and last!) Horseman of the Apocalypse.

Crosby's right! The End is Nigh, I tell you!

He deserved it,
he used to feed his beer bits of hamburger.

And back to the topic at hand, I feed fruit flies to my beer (really!)...

...

Who the fuck is Rimbo?

The sticky fly tapes do reasonably well. I have to hang two in the garage, er brewery, during the spring thorugh fall. Even so they congregate around air locks on fermenters.

They are really attracted by ripe bananas and other fruit. (Gee, fruit flys attracted to fruit?). Don't set any out where they can smell it. Dry air seems to do them in. Crank up the AC.

AC??? In a Seattle home? I have never known anyone to have AC in their home.

What about de-humidifiers?

or in Allentown for that matter.

Not really. Doesn't get that humid, cept when it rains and when that happens it's usually kinda cold out.

I have AC in my home. Hugh G. ASS windows and afternoon sun (when it's here, in the summertime) doth a hot sweltering geek make.

I didn't pay for the AC, mind you...

I have a Hugh G. ASS fan. It gets the job done.

I have a Hugh G. ASS central air unit.
It's the fucking desert here and my house faces west.
I also have a Hugh G. ASS fan.
With the two working together, it's almost cool in my house.

Vegas is an oven. It can be fun but always remember --


if the power goes out everyone dies!

Last time my AC went out at my house,
it was July, 115 degrees, 2 am,
and I woke up in a puddle of my own sweat to the sound of the pug wheezing.

We took a quick cold shower and then I brought him with me to my office where we spent a lovely day together. He was happy to get to pee on all new trees and be fawned over by lots of new people.

Everything in this city has to have AC, if the heat doesn't get you, the humidity will.

I have central air, and window units stored for emergencies.

Same here in the summer though it is survivable without AC -- barely and in a truly miserable way.

Small cup or bowl with apple cider (inch deep) & a drop of liquid dishwashing soap. The little buggers get stuck in it & DIE.

I'll try that.
Danke!