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Fruit flies in flowers

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afanasev-max, 13.02.2010 6:52

in the soil of indoor plants lives a horde of this fly. Got it! they fly to die on the windowsill, all the corners are covered with them... They tried to poison me with Fly Agarics, without much success. How can this attack of lime be prevented so that indoor plants do not suffer?
Thank you in advance.

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13.02.2010 9:03, Guest

vacuum cleaner to collect a couple of times a week, in 2-3 weeks you will get rid of completely

13.02.2010 12:55, afanasev-max

thank you very much, the advice is good and effective.
but the trouble is that we don't have a vacuum cleaner in the house (well, we don't need it. absolutely)

are there any other options?

13.02.2010 13:16, Vorona

Then exhausterom.
Don't you fill up the flowers there? The soil should actually dry out, at least the top layer.
If the larvae develop in the soil, you can buy something nasty in the flower shop, but you need not spray, but soak the earthen lump. Moreover, this case should be repeated a couple of times - the insecticide may not work on eggs. But this is not good - it is harmful frown.gif
And you can also get a praying mantis - it will catch smile.gif

13.02.2010 13:57, afanasev-max

Moreover, this case should be repeated a couple of times - the insecticide may not work on eggs.

Precisely! let's try to re-process it. I somehow forgot about the larval eggs...
Thank you.

13.02.2010 15:32, Vorona

Then you will have to do the third one (there are probably already eggs there again) - this should be done after a certain interval equal to the time from egg laying to the departure of the imago.

13.02.2010 16:11, afanasev-max

and at what interval?

13.02.2010 17:20, Vorona

If this is really drosophila (D. melanogaster) - they have about 10 days from egg laying to hatching at 24 degrees. And if they don't, I don't know. frown.gif But usually a treatment schedule is written on the poison (I once poisoned a flat pot on cacti, although this is not an insect, of course...)

13.02.2010 17:58, afanasev-max

If it's really fruit flies

they are they, the black-bellied ones!

13.02.2010 20:20, vlad-veras

These are not fruit flies, but rather humpbacks. Fruit flies do not develop in the soil.

13.02.2010 23:50, Pirx

These are not fruit flies, but rather humpbacks. Fruit flies do not develop in the soil.


Otoj, kume.

01.03.2010 21:26, Arikain

I have drosophila the autumn before last, like, there was a boom. I have a private house and the corner from one external side was just plastered with them. And also on the second floor, dozens of people just crawled on the windows, then they had to sweep them out. On the street, on the windowsills they dried up, the windowsills were just strewn with them, and then after about a week they all disappeared. What could have caused such an "invasion"of them?. Sometimes they appear, but usually not in large groups of 5-6 individuals, no more. And then thousands crawled and flew around the site, and in the house they were in bulk.

10.03.2010 21:24, Мих

and some people can't find fruit flies for food.. the animals are starving.. and some people poison you.. if drosophila plants were found only in entomologists ' homes, everyone would be happy.
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11.03.2010 14:14, afanasev-max

they really weren't fruit flies. the wings are black and opaque.
we got rid of them by repeatedly killing them with Fly Agarics.

11.03.2010 18:16, Arikain

Can fruit flies live in sawdust? just on the ceiling of the second floor I have sawdust piled up. Now I don't seem to have met them, only long-legged mosquitoes began to appear, already about four mosquitoes were caught, sitting on the ceiling, flying, then disappearing somewhere. It's strange, they don't seem to start up in houses, and it's still winter.

11.03.2010 18:42, Zlopastnyi Brandashmyg

If the fruit is packed in sawdust, it can. The life span of a single fly is small - there must be a place where they develop. And drosophilae develop on rotting fruits.

12.03.2010 7:55, sid65

In flower pots, local fruit flies do not develop. If only in greenhouses and where plant residues are not removed. Most often, these are phoras.
And about, drosophilus in a private house... Are these exactly them? Similar phenomena are typical for one species from chloropidae (I can't remember the type right away). But in the Leningrad region and St. Petersburg in residential buildings on the upper floors periodically observed their accumulation.
Drosophilids also do not develop in sawdust. They prefer more liquefied, fermenting and similar substrates...

12.03.2010 18:56, Arikain

Rotting fruit is definitely not there, only sawdust can be raw or boards. It seems exactly drosophila, in the Internet photo it looks like the abdomen is striped from below, orange or light yellow in color, sometimes found on fruits.

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