Pest Organisms / Fruit Fly

Prevention

for Fruit Fly

Prevention is sanitation: remove and dispose of overripe and dropped fruit so larvae have nowhere to develop. Source: https://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/GARDEN/FRUIT/PESTS/fruitflies.html At home that means discarding decaying produce, refrigerating or covering ripe fruit, taking out trash before it sits, fitting drain covers, and cleaning mops and brooms that trap fruit residue — keeping drains, cans, recycling, and counters free of the fermenting film they breed in. Source: https://site.extension.uga.edu/madison/2021/08/shoo-fruit-flies-dont-bother-me/

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