posted on Aug, 26 2021 @ 08:13 AM
a reply to:
aboutface
I haven't researched this, but my take is this..
When fruit flies lay eggs or whatever it is they do into those fruit, those eggs take some time and temperature to hatch.
They're in some kind of 'dormant form' when they're in the store, so obviously you don't see them (yet). When you take them home, they have time to
hatch and 'wake up', and thus, start bothering you. I don't think they would read your sign, so that's a useless solution.
What I do is keep the fruit in an airtight containment unit until it's time to eat the fruit, so any fruit flies can't either breathe or at least
can't get out until I start eating them. Then if I see flying fruit flies (or banana flies), I'll just use a combination of vacuum cleaner, water
bottle with an adjustable 'squirter' system where I can create a 'big cloud of watery mist' all around them little buggers, so they can't fly (how
ironic considering their name), and keeping my kitchen as clean and the surfaces and accessible places as food-free as possible, and take away 'bio
trash' as quickly as possible.
Even with these methods, they sometimes bug me, but I just wrote here to give my theory about why you don't (yet) see them in the supermarkets
(although I see them there, too, from time to time), but you see them in your home.
It could also be a ploy to get people to eat unhealthier desserts, like synthetic food - chocolate bars, factory-manufactured cookies and such.