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Offlinetonyperez420
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Fruit Fly Infestation?
    #7447848 - 09/24/07 02:07 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Whats the best way to get rid of fruit flies?

Also, are there substrates that are more prone to fruit fly infestation then others?

Is there a way to stop fruit flies forming in my susbstrate altogether?
I have been getting them after second and third flushes.

I kill so many... and there are always more buzzing around!

what should I do:confused:

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Re: Fruit Fly Infestation? [Re: tonyperez420]
    #7447903 - 09/24/07 02:25 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

sounds more like fungus gnats to me. neem oil is effective, but you've got yourself a real pain in the ass infestation to deal with if that's truly the case.

A couple directed searches about "fungus gnats" will help you commiserate and find other useful tips.

Good luck bro, they're a hellashishly difficult pest to get rid of unless you really attack them from all angles.


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Keep in mind that inoculating or whatever in front of a flow hood won't help your bad substrate, your bad inoculant, your bad sterile procedure, etc. etc. etc. It's not a +3 flowhood of magic, it's just a tool.


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Re: Fruit Fly Infestation? [Re: mycocurious]
    #7447932 - 09/24/07 02:37 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

I have been spraying them down with rubbing alcohol....
Watching suffer while they die is pretty fun...

But now I got to clean their corpses off from my ceiling and walls:mad2:

thanks


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Re: Fruit Fly Infestation? [Re: mycocurious]
    #7447936 - 09/24/07 02:39 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

i've had them and yeah, they suck. i got rid of them by taking out old cakes (2nd and 3rd flush cakes), placed new ones outside, rinsed the perlite through with water and made sure the growbox didn't contain any flies. it seems they go for the more spent cakes. after i put new, fresh cakes into the terrarium the flies were gone.

but i heard that if you put a small shot glass full of beer into the terrarium the flies will be drawn to that and can probably drown themselves. idk if thi is true but i've seen flies do that elsewhere :shrug:


good luck with the gnats.


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Re: Fruit Fly Infestation? [Re: Bridgeburner]
    #7448082 - 09/24/07 03:22 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

we had a horrible infestation a while back. my roommate looked up how to make traps for them. get some apple cider vinegar and put it in a cup. then make a paper funnel that goes down to right above the vinegar. they'll flock to it within a few minutes, go own the funnel and be trapped. cheap, easy, very effective.


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Re: Fruit Fly Infestation? [Re: Iolaa]
    #7448094 - 09/24/07 03:25 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

thank you Iolaa. Been wondering about this as well. I hear these fuggers die off in the winter...


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Re: Fruit Fly Infestation? [Re: Iolaa]
    #7448107 - 09/24/07 03:28 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

I guess that is worth a shot lolaa
what have I got to lose... hopefully these damn gnats

But I do wonder where they come from and how they reproduce so quickly! If there is any way I could stop them before it is too late... would be better..

I use coir as substrate and I DO pasteurize 165F for 4 hours
And I also use pre pasteurized hpoo from a shroomery vendor so.. :confused:


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Re: Fruit Fly Infestation? [Re: tonyperez420]
    #7448365 - 09/24/07 04:57 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Get some fly strips and stick them on the inside of your FC. That seems to keep them under control in my setup. I am waiting for the winter so the damn things die off.

Cheers


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Re: Fruit Fly Infestation? [Re: theratatat]
    #7448374 - 09/24/07 05:01 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

i had an infestation once, and the only way i got rid of them was lolaas traps, constant cleaning, and washing every piece of fruit i brought home from the grocery store. (which to this day is where i believe my infestation came from, stowaways on the S.S. banana)


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Re: Fruit Fly Infestation? [Re: dysphoria]
    #7448396 - 09/24/07 05:10 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Normally, they breed in your houseplant soil and then fly out to your mycelium to feed. They can be killed off in the houseplant soil by soaking the entire pot from the soil line below in the sink for 24 hours. This drowns the adults and larvae.

The ideas suggested above all work, and you can also use the vacuum cleaner to suck them out of the FC. If you'll cut a lemon or lime in half and leave one of the halves near your grow, they'll congregrate on the lemon rather than your mycelium. It's easy then to get them with the vacuum cleaner hose.
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Re: Fruit Fly Infestation? [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #7448499 - 09/24/07 05:48 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

vacuum cleaner seems like it would work...RR always knows what he's talking about. i think they were coming from our trash. i also read online that they breed in the drain pipes. as long as we keep the trash under control, it seems like the fruit flies stay away.

good luck!


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