Banana fly traps

Prevention and control of banana fly, fruit fly and vinegar fly

As a start to avoid banana flies, you must take preventive action. Here, care must be taken to store the things that can attract banana flies in such a way that they cannot get to them - and lay their eggs in them. It is therefore important not to have pounded fruit or vegetables lying around, not to have empty wine and beer bottles standing for too long and to ensure that jams, Asians etc. are in tight containers.

When pickling, jars and glasses should be closed as soon as possible if there are banana flies in the air. Apple peels and other fruit waste should be taken outside as soon as possible.

The banana flies can sometimes breed in food scraps on drain grates and in milk puddles under kitchen counters.

In the summer, the flies can also breed outdoors, and you must be aware of hotbeds such as rubbish bins and compost and waste heaps, especially with fallen fruit and the like.

At companies where you work with boiling and pickling vegetables and fruit, you must effectively try to keep the flies out. One often tends to overlook how little space banana flies need to develop.

Return packaging in the form of barrels, tubs, glass and bottles with lids can be the cause of large fly populations, and the same applies to poorly cleaned waste containers.

The pupae, which are cemented firmly to the substrate, are difficult to remove and can give rise to complaints in connection with recycled packaging.

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