Comments on: Steinernema feltiae VS The Fruit Flies

By: Bentley

Bentley — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 14:51:31 +0000

Breegine – glad you sent the follow-up comment! I was pretty worried! lol

By: Breegine French

Breegine French — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 10:22:47 +0000

Just realised Im in wrong section for last comment mine is regular composer not a wormer

By: Breegine French

Breegine French — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 10:12:22 +0000

I’ve been at the end of my teather with fruit flies in compost bin and kitchen for the past week even though never had problem before. Just had a brainwave and sprinkled a kettle full of boiling water over open bin. BINGO instant solution! Maybe not the kindest or eco friendly approach but a relief for now.

By: BARBARA

BARBARA — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 15:27:15 +0000

I was raising praying mantids in my house and had to keep fruit flies (wingless) in jars to feed the babies.
So my opinion, if you want the flies gone, raise praying mantids.
You can buy the eggs on ebay and hatch out about 300 babies per egg.
Of course when the mantids got bigger, I had to raise silkworms as there were not enough bugs to be found for them to eat.

By: Bentley

Bentley — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:04:50 +0000

Thanks for popping by Asha – I’m certainly looking forward to the results myself. Hopefully I’ll end up with a bin full of nematodes (and dead fruit fly larvae), so I can add them elsewhere.

Dwayne – I suspect you are right. Part of the reason I am testing them out like this is to see if I can create something of an ongoing culture of the nematodes. It will obviously be a little more difficult in the winter (don’t want to keep lots of fruit flies inside), but I’m going to research the biology of these nematodes a little more and see if there is some way to make them go dormant without killing them. They aren’t super cheap (or readily available) so I’d prefer it if I didn’t have to order more.

By: Dwayne

Dwayne — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:39:21 +0000

Bentley

I used nematodes on soldier fly maggots. It worked for a while and now they are back. I think I have read that you must re-treat ever so often. I have gotten used to them but it did seem to work and should work on the fruit flies.

Dwayne

By: Asha

Asha — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:04:11 +0000

I have been lurking on your site for sometime now. Very interesting to read your experiments with the worms. Waiting to see what happens with this one! Never thought fruit flies could be a good thing after all 🙂