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If there was a fruit fly competition in the Olympics, there was a time when I would've been a gold medalist. I spent a few years working in a beer distributorship, my desk nestled right next to the windows overlooking the warehouse. Empties would come in, fruit flies would multiply, and I would catch so many of those buggers in a day that I could just snatch 'em out of the air in just one try. But the skills, they are a-fading, and I'm always on the lookout for other methods.

Marisa shared the vinegar solution to killing the flies earlier this month, but there is another, easier way to fight those incessant, annoying little things. Rue. According to The Kitchn, all it takes is a few sprigs of the stuff. Upon the suggestion of a rue seller, they put some sprigs in a fruit bowl full of dates, and all the fruit flies that were buzzing around it completely disappeared.

My thought: Rather than buy a sprig or two, grow it in your kitchen and have a continual fruit fly fighter as well as a nice plant.

All summer long, I've been buying up bags of tomatoes, quarts of peaches and at least two melons a week. I can't get enough of the sweet flavors and amazing freshness of the produce from my local farms and markets. I have, however, had more than enough of the fruit flies that often tag along with my edible hauls. For the last two months, my kitchen has offered shelter to these diminutive insects and their flitting around is starting to make me feel truly crazy.

Thankfully, just as I was about to round the bend and consider stripping my kitchen bare in order to free myself of the fruit fly plague, Re-Nest has come through with a technique for getting rid of these pests. It involves a cone-shaped piece of paper and a glass of apple cider vinegar and is apparently supposed to work wonders. I'm planning on setting one up when I get home tonight. Hopefully the fruit flies will soon be no more!

[via The Kitchn]

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