Fruit flies

I have never had such an experience of being over run by fruit flies. From time to time, if you leave a wine glass unwashed for a few days with dribbles in the bottom, you really notice them, especially in the heat of summer.

But it's getting ridiculous. Admittedly, we are not 100% operating theatre clean, but we are making a real effort at the moment to keep things clean. I poured myself a glass of wine, and left it for maybe five, ten minutes at the most, and six of the bastards had leaped in. It was a bloody good Shiraz...actually only a Vin du Pays D'Oc (but proper stuff from France, not the crap they pass off to supermarkets), and it was the last glass, so I'm a bit miffed.

I don't think I have ever have six flies in a wine glass. Certainly not in winter, certainly not indoors.

Jimmy thinks it's it do with the composting bin, which is kept at the bottom of the garden but not very far from the downstairs shower-room/loo.

I want to blame the bastard builders, but wonder if it's anything to do with the weird weather. I wonder if it's just us, or is it a widespread problem, and if we get the rumoured cold snap, they'll go away? Although, frankly, the forecast for night-time temperatures falling to - woo - minus one doesn't seem cold enough to me.

Comments

[z]

Hm, Norfolk fruit flies are a bit more insistent and will dive in your glass between sips. But I agree with you, I've never known them to be around mid-winter before.

They don't seem to flavour the wine, though. And the alcohol kills the germs, or so I tell myself as I swig.

[Gert]

I tend to take the same view if they just dip, but six corpses of dead flies lined up one by one as if it were fruit fly armageddon is just off-putting

[Ally]

We've got them, too. And my daffodils are out.

[Sinead]

Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.