An expert entomologist explains the best (and worst) methods for ridding your kitchen of those annoying little flies.
One of the questions most commonly asked by amateur fruit growers is "Why do my plums and peaches rot and dry up just as they are getting ripe?" The brown rot disease that is responsible for this rot ...
or any bruised fruit, which tends to ripen and rot more quickly. Once the flies get in your house, she said, they'll lay eggs everywhere they can -- in rotten fruit or any fermented substances ...
"Decay organisms enter, leaving the interior of the fruit a rotten mass," the state department says. More than 230 kinds of fruits and vegetables have been attacked. Getting rid of the pest ...