With all our bounty of Midwest high summer produce, we’ve got unintended consequences —fruit flies. Any suggestions for ridding ourselves of these pests? Right now I have a splash of wine in a glass with plastic wrap...

We have off-and-on fruit flies. Whenever I leave a glass with a bit of wine on the counter overnight it’s loaded with [drowned] flies in the morning. I’ve never done it intentionally to catch fruit flies, but I...

does anyone have any tips for keeping fruit flies away from my fruit bowl? they seem to be invading my kitchen

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Just came home to a fruit bowl of buzzing fruit flies - and none of the fruit is super-ripe yet. Does anyone have any natural remedies to get rid of or repel these? I’ve tried different herbs without much luck. This is...

Just came home to a bowl of swarming fruit flies buzzing around my still unripened fruit. Does anyone have a natural remedy to get rid of or repel these things? I want to leave my fruit out to ripen, but these flies are grossing...

I have a pot full of basil sitting on my window sill (clove, sweet, and lemon) next to a japanese eggplant plant (that seems to hate the full sun it claims to love). A few weeks ago, I noticed a sudden infestation of fruit flies...

So I’ve done some fairly extensive web research (read: about 5 minutes with Google) that has brought up nothing on this topic, and maybe (my completely forgotten) high school biology would explain this for me, but can...

So it’s summer. The fruit is great. We like to keep it out in bowls in the kitchen so someone can grab a peach or a banana or an apple or a mango if the mood strikes. Sadly, the fruit flies seem to get more out of it than...

Is there any trick that will rid my kitchen of fruit flies?? There are sooo many and I don’t know why they are here! All of the food that is out is fresh and I keep our kitchen clean. We even have a lid for our garbage....

that. Sadly, a fruit fly was buzzing around our food and bread basket during our meal. Eventually it wandered into my water glass and drowned. I asked the waiter for a new glass, and when he came back with it, he apologized...

The arrogant one prevails over the female one and the gay one.

This week’s mission: Healthier rice/potato chips and cream cheese–filled bagel cylinders.

This week’s mission: off-kilter but refreshing soft drinks and a zesty hodgepodge of a pretzel snack.

Adapt plants to your own private patch of dirt.