Why Fruit Flies Are So Hard To Kill
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- Опубліковано 16 тра 2019
- Come summertime, fruit flies arrive in droves. They’re drawn in by the smell of fruit - and by the fungi and other microorganisms that produce rot. Once they land on apples, bananas, and whatever else they can find, they lay hundreds of eggs that hatch into hundreds of maggots, which then pupate into flies. So how can you get rid of them? Make a trap, or just clean up.
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Why Fruit Flies Are So Hard To Kill - Наука та технологія
Fruit: **exists**
Fruit flies: *it's free real estate*
Coconut Jam hippity hoppity your shit is now my property
Net: *hold my bug*
Coconut Jam how’d they steal your comment?
I kill them with one poison that can kill any insect nicotine a neuron toxin
@@anthan1858 type the same stuff and post it
This is why I keep a sniper-rifle in my house
@Josiah Sepulveda so is fruit flies eating your bananas on the table
😂😂
Josiah Sepulveda r/wooosh?
I was gonna say somebody is gonna get whooshed and what do you know the first comment is a whoosh lol.
Awesome i have one too
You know what they say...
Time flys like an arrow.
Fruit flys like bananas.
I like you, you know I do?
Dad??
Old people jokes lol
r/puns
Ed
*Fruit flies be rubbing their hands*
like an evil scientist scheming what's the best way to annoy humans
Fruit fly: Oh you're reading? Let me just land on your face.
I have seen flies rubbing their hands before
I just seen Home flies doing it
Ipis
Lol, You Made My Day! XD
You know why they are so hard to kill?? Because they perceive time at a different speed and from their perspective everything is in slow motion. So no matter how fast you think you are, you are slow.
source?
Subscribe Official quantum physics, proven by many physicists
@@subscribeofficial7134 www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/10311821/Flies-see-the-world-in-slow-motion-say-scientists.html
Megalithic Monkey why didn’t she say this lmao. 😂
Wait realy? Cuz i just swat them out of the air or on a table and 5% of the time is when i miss
How to get revenge on fruit flies:
Trap them in a tiny container and shake it vigorously
Cailyn DAO
Then let them go so they can tell the others what could happen to them if they get into the house...
J C A
"Dude, I just rode on the sickest ride EVER!!"
"Really? I want to try"
"Sure thing follow me!"
@@baligong3592 ugh take it from me personally being shaken while trapped in a jar is no picknic 🤢🤮
@@dissonanceparadiddle
Take a joke
@@cyanisntcontent_creator I know I know... And even though I'm an insect myself....I really hate flies😒
My house is very clean, but living in a rural area, sometimes a fly gets into my home... The issue? That I have every window of my home tapered with mesh cloth to avoid mosquitoes, so the flies can't escape, and (I don't know why, maybe because of the lack of food or the temperatures) they start flying around like crazy and trying to walk over my face.... Really irritating.
So I have mastered the art of killing flies lol, every once in a while, when a fly gets stuck in my home, I use some kind of cold spray, like deodorant or freshener, and spray the fly! They won't escape because they won't know where is the attack coming from! And after a second they won't be able to fly because of the cold and wetness, and you can easily strike ... So now you got rid of a pesky fly and your room smells nice :D double win
Antibacterial spray I find works the best. Sure some may fly away but more often than not, the bacterial spray sticks them to the walls/kitchen surface making it an easy kill with tissue paper. I've had a few people respond with hairspray.... yeah well unless you want it all sticky I don't recommend hairspray.
I've killed way more fruit flies with antibacterial spray than RAID fly killer spray (Which actually don't work on the damn things) Or any plant based bug killer that kills many flying insects. Fruit flies just seem to be immune to the damn things, but antibacterial spray for me at least in the way I work it, done wonders! You gotta spray so they stick to the wall, then with a tissue kill them. Shoot them on walls becaue its easier than shooting them in the air, however sometimes you can shoot them from the air and they'll 'drop' to the ground/surface, if you can find them they'll be walking around spray em again for good measure and tissue wipe them up (but not all drop/its not easy to see where they drop).
@@Mynameishassan0 they don't have the cognitive abilities of a human to feel fear, not even the same nervous system to feel nearly the same kind of pain a human would experience... And they're pests, people need to kill them to control their populations and the damages they cause
ItzHasman RBLX I don’t think you have ever experienced a fly infestation it’s horrible
@@Mynameishassan0 Do you also worship statues?
You guys dont have sprays made specifically for flies and cockroaches... Those work well
Pfft ur scared of a fruit fly? You clearly never herd Minecraft cave sound 4
Funtime_Swagbear 😂💀
Lol a 7 year old minecrafter
Heard*
@@dankdoge4860 more like an og dont try fortnite player
@@dankdoge4860 At least he's not watching dead doge memes like you are lol
I remember the first time I ever saw a fruit fly in my house and that was 5 years ago; they must have made a colony or something because, even in the winter, I can always find one flying around.
Get some disposable Solo cups, some of those hanging fly traps and some vinegar. Stuff the fly paper into the cup and make sure a good portion of the tape extends higher than the lip of the cup. Fruit flies will tend to land on the highest part so if it's below the lip, they'll just land on the lip and waltz down the side of the cup. Let it sit out somewhere, next to the kitchen sink seems like one of the best spots but next to the trash or, if you have bananas, set it up right next to the bananas (they love bananas).
When you wake up each morning, run hot water down your drains for a few minutes. I'm told a mix of 50/50 vinegar and hot water is best but I didn't bother and it worked. They tend to lay their eggs in drains, especially drains that don't get used much. If you have any drains you don't/rarely use, just close them. Keep this up for a couple weeks and I think you'll go far towards eradicating your fruit flies.
Cleaning up after any bits of food, dirty dishes, etc that might be lying around is important, I mean that's largely how you avoid getting them in the first place but my parents who keep their place very clean still get fruit flies from time to time. A lidded trash can is probably a good idea, too, as well as taking your trash out before it piles up too much (especially if there is any leftover bits of food in there).
Last little side note, their wings stop working if they get any sort of soap on them (same with flies and any winged insect really). When they were still around enough that I'd see them fairly often, I'd always try and grab the nearest window cleaner or whatever cleaning spray I have to blast them with. Works every time if you're tired of trying to swat at them.
I declared total war against these fruit flies this year after several years of them popping up every summer. Blasting the drains with hot water for like 5 minutes every day was the turning point. You can kill and trap as many of them as you like, but there are still eggs waiting somewhere to hatch more of these little bastards. Happy hunting, everyone.
Found it 5 monkeys lol
I think they come out of portals
They come out the middle of nowhere
100%. I believe they can teleport in and out of the void at will, and no one can convince me otherwise lol
Fruit fly's eyes red
sasuke's sharingan is red too
Now you know why fly are so hard to kill
so... the fly has mastered SHARINGAN let's just hope that they don't learn *fire style fire ball jutsu*
2:42 iS THaT a JoJO REFerEnCE
Its easy to kill them with a flamethrower.
instructions unclear burn orphanage
It's just a pity your house burns 🔥 down in the process? But hey, the flies are gone! 👍😂
Homemade fruit fly traps work too. Set some apple cider vinegar in a beaker, create a funnel just small enough for the fruit fly, then set in the beaker and make sure it's air tight. It's super effective
*These flies are mathematical but still manage to bump into my face.*
I read years ago to attack flies with both hands from different directions so they have trouble knowing which way to flee.
The true definition of Sharingan
More like byakugan
I see u everywhere
Flock u
Foock u
Stop following me
Over the summer I had a few fruit flies in my house before my vacation and when I came back there was a whole population of them just chilling. I was so scared in my own home that I was ready to let the fruit flies take over and just dip.
Here's my trap that works awesome:
3/4th vinegar
3/4th wine
Water to fill jar
*Soap*
And then stir and leave it. The soap breaks water tension and even if they touch it once they'll be trapped
If they are by you just spray them down with air freshener lmao it works well and saves you energy. Don't do that if you're by aquariums though air freshener is deadly to fish
They're also attracted to light. I use KATCHY fly catcher. I uses an ultraviolet LED and USB fan. The light attracts the fruit flies and then fan sucks them into the trap. I have two of these and they keep the population at bay.
Me: **stays still like a statue**
Fly: 🤔
Me: I have mastered the skill of staying so still, that I am invisible...
Fly: Hmmm
Me: OMAE WA MO SHIN DE IRU! **slaps it with my hand with dramatic anime angle switching**
Fly: Ah shi-
Blood: **flies everywhere**
I like it that you combined anime and marvel
K thanks
Ur the best bruv
To kill a fly go in very slow and when you’re really close attack, works every time.
Fruitflies dodging attacks from us are more inevitable than Thanos
Jiren chillin in the comment section oh really
I rarely see fruit flies
Probably because I don’t eat fruit
Naa I think it’s because u eat flys
I know this is a joke but everyone please eat fruits and veggies it's good for you.
Listen hear weeb ur not my dad
@@subline_funtime whatever you say bud, make sure you take out the trash before you hop back on the Xbox please
The Koala kingdom SHOW Xbox is gay dad ps4 is life
Your work is incredible! I love all your videos! Keep on working hard ;)
Fruit flies definitely comes from another dimension.
Great video and graphics. Thanks! 😁
I thought one of the main reasons it's hard to kill a fly is because they see the world in slow motion compared to what we experience. When you swatted a fly it sees your hand moving at a slower pace then what you see when you swing your arm. So they can quickly calculate and maneuver and dodge whatever's coming at them.
Even if it gets in your mouth?
Her: They can move really fast
Me: GRABS SPRAY
What about now
Yeah that's What I do if I see fruit flies
*_How to defeat Fruit Flies:_*
*_1: put your hand near the fruit fly to the point of the their legs retracting backwards_*
*_2:Have a Fly Swatter on your other hand_*
*_3:Move your right hand suddenly and then swat the fly from the other hand_*
bowl of vinegar and dish soap will kill them
Jeff ☝️😁This guy is NOT lying
Does any type of vinegar will work?
@@alfred4264 Apple cider vinegar is great
@@alfred4264 apple cider will work best but I also used white vinegar and it works just as good
How to prepare this
My fiance left the bin lid open all night long and now we have an infestation. They're driving me around the god damn bend! I've never dealt with them before.
BTW, they're not very good at escaping my disinfectant spray.
Good News...Flies can't find hole
I repeat FLIES CAN'T FIND HOLES
The why is one inside your eye? You should've wore some underwear
Man, these flies actually listened and studied in school...mostly math for starters.
I've gotten so good at killing fruit flies I feel like I'm becoming a gecko.
start eating those fruit flies like a gecko.
TRANSFORM INTO THE FRUIT FLY KILLER!
That's why we need **The flash**
*_FLASH. AAAAAAAAAA_*
What about when they quickly travel to a different dimension when you try to keep your eyes on them
You can swat them better when they’re sleeping. They usually sleep around midnight or two to three am depending on the fruit fly. Yes I study them when I see one. Once however I felt bad for one because I knew it was asleep so I left it alone. It slept the entire night on my cup next to my couch where I slept. They wake up around six am and are usually clumsy in the morning. I wouldn’t kill them at all if they weren’t so annoying and multiply so fast
the only way to kill flies without fail is bug spray because from my experience they cant react fast enough
Put some apple cider vinegar in a glass (maybe one inch, you don’t need much), add a drop of dish soap, cover the top with plastic wrap and poke a few small holes in it. The flies will be drawn by the vinegar, climb through the plastic and sink to the bottom of the glass (the dish soap helps got rid of the surface tension of the vinegar). This works, you’ll catch most of them, but there’s always gonna be a few buzzing around... that’s just the way it goes...
2:16 so the best way to kill them is create a whirlwind so they cannot escape any angle
Normal flies: *’watch your food humans we’re coming for you’*
Fruit flies: *’hold my antenna’*
Okay just realised that doesn’t make any sense 🤦♀️
But...
But...
A N I M E
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I wonder why people still repeating stupid sensless comments trying to recycle them...
Surprise toy City I wonder too
That fruitfly I stepped on last week didn’t calculate my size 10 timberland boot 🥾 😂😂🤣🦟
Lmao
Very good video. Very informative. Thank you : )
"Oh? You're approaching me?! Even though I've already infested your whole grocery? Ho ho! Then come as close as you like. ZA WARUDO!"
Lol cell
I don’t need to come close. I can beat the shit out of you from right here. DIO!
@@ethiopi642 he wasn't refering to cell unless you're talking about his pfp
@@archacies1511 pfp
They go up when they take off, swat above them like a tennis player.
270• Degree vision maximum is 360• or 0• so fruit flies cant see us from behind.
The narrator of this story clearly never had fruit flies in her home, no matter how clean the house is fruit flies will still come..... specially if you live in front of a fruit and veggies store like me
Wow I love the animation and yes they are very difficult to kill.
...they aren't hard to kill, you have to know how!
Example:
Put some parts of an apple in a lil plastic bag and let it stay on a calmly spot over night.
Next day go directly to this plastic bag and close it quick and there u see you catched a minimum of 65% - 90%
of them. Repeat it for some days and you got rid of this lil strangers.
The hardest parts is, let out the air slow while you hold this plastic bag almost closed, then squish them.
You can reuse the plastic bag with the dead flies inside, that don't disturb the next flies because they only smell the apple inside.
More brown the parts of an apple are, then more delicious is it for the flies.
Use the greediness of their natur to kill them.
This made me feel pretty good for being able to swat most of my fruit flies at home, even when they are in the air :3.
Of course I also boil water and poor it in to the sink and plugg it afterwards.
Fruit flies are magical creatures capable of warping between time and space.
I've been saying this forever! They can teleport in and out of the void at will. There is no other explanation
@@profrainbow5707 How'd you find my 3 year old comment lmao
@@owo1744 lol I scroll through comments a lot while I watch videos
100 fruit flies come"
Me:UH BYE I'M MOVING HOUSE!
If fruit flies always hard to kill.....
I might try the all powerful flamethrower
You can't get rid of them because their respawn rate is .001 of a second.
Fruit flies... The best definition ever used for "I only came for the food"
Along with vinegar traps some tips I found were; at night go around to all the drains in the house and pour some powered bleach in and around them especially the garbage disposal and let it sit until these are in use again. Clean up your kitchen and remove any foods sitting out and stop putting perishable foods in your trashcan and letting them marinate in the kitchen trashcan for days.Also, whenever you dispose of perishable foods take them to the outside trashcan and make sure the outside trashcan is not to close to a commonly used accessed point for the house. Clean your kitchen but also clean the bathrooms and search for any potential breeding grounds. Of course vinegar traps throughout the house but they work really well by entrances and around the refrigerator. Lastly, have some patience.
Vinegar doesn't always work. The best way to eliminate them is the source. Find out where the little bastards are spawning from.
@@nocturnalrecluse1216 It works better if you fill a cup with fly paper and leave a bit of it protruding above the lip of the cup. They seem to almost always land on the highest point. I got sooo many this way until I realized I need to go after the drains too. I'd recommend disposable cups lol
2:22 Damnn!!! Fruit Flies can do *Calculus*
Frogs:*finally, a worthy opponent our battle will be legendary*
Best voice ever i heard in this channel
Yeah, but I have a more pressing question: so if you manage to kill a fruit fly does that mean you moved faster than 1/100th of a second?
Damn this video made me realize how great my reflexes are then because fruit flies aren’t a problem to kill for me.
Me too! The flies are quick, but they still get flattened in the end! They leave BLOODSTAINS!
Hey I found a good way to catch em.
Get some apple cider vinegar, a styrofoam cup and some Saran Wrap
Fill the cup about half way, and cover the top with the Saran Wrap, and tape it on or staple it if you want it to be secured. Then poke a small hole just big enough for it to get through, but not big enough for it to easily get out. Then just wait.
Once i was on holiday, and a fruit fly landed on my finger, and we exchanged very close eye contact. To this day I’m terrified of flies
Me: *sees a fly or mosquito* the battle has begun.
Me: ..*gets my electric swat*
The easiest way to kill fruit flies is to spray them with kitchen cleaning products, because they have very sensitive respiratory systems. When my home was infested with them last year, we sprayed them with kitchen cleaning sprays and their numbers decreased rapidly.
Left a banana in the trash too long and had an investigation within 2 Weeks. Only way I got rid of them was a bowl of vinegar with pineapples in it covered in plastic wrap with Poke holes in it so the fruit flies can get in but not out.
I came home from work one night and found my house was free from the plague. Only one lonely fly left in the kitchen. The next morning nothing was moving in my kitchen anymore.
I have a swarm of them in my house, including the microwave.
I found a few dead in my food after I reheated it!
If you don't want flies to infest your house just set your AC to cool. A cold environment is not suitable for flies to thrive. Or you could just use spray.
If you are trying to catch or swat a fly, move your hand/swatter/net very slowly towards the fly. Flies perceive time far slower than humans do. Thus, if you move your hand/swatter/net slowly towards the fly, the fly would barely see it move, in fact it's motion is almost completely unnoticeable by the fly, and thus, as long as your hand/swatter/net is not extremely close to the fly, it will ignore it completely. Once you feel you hand/swatter/net is close enough, and you can get pretty close, engage on the target with full speed, and kill/catch it. As long as you are fast when you engage, this works almost 100% of the time.
You're welcome
I hit them with "broom sticks" and it 100% works because I hold so much sticks and the flies confuse how to dodge it
Tb to walt and jesse trying to kill a fly for a full episode of Breaking bad.
Is it just me or do I notice a fruit fly every time I paint my nails?
Now tell us how to get rid of Gnats!
Great vid thank you !!!
Fruit flies reminds me of how jungkookie tries to kill 'em with vacuum in kitchen (in midnight)
Thank you. You just turned my infestation problem into an intellectual war!!
*When a fly is much smarter than you*
Nobody:
Science insider: yum, awwn
I have used vinegar to great effect. But rather than a funnel, I use a couple drops of dish soap to break surface tension. I have placed a jar one day, and the next day found hundreds in the jar. No funnel needed. The vinegar even started to "digest" them. A couple day of this and no more fruit flies. If you notice a few of fruit flies, you have many times that number that you don't see. Of course you need to clean to stop them coming back. Pouring vinegar down the drain every so often can help stop drain sludge from building up. It also works great to keep a dishwasher clean.
Here's a quick tip: cover your hands with froth made by washing your hands with soap and start catching fruit flies. Rinse them every few seconds. It will reduce the number of fruit flies around your house.
*ZA WORLDO!!*
2:42
One second has passed...
It'sThatCrazyAnimeGirlAgain Was that a JOJO REFERENCE?
They have sharingan. Thats why we cant kill them. :O
I use a spray bottle with rubbing alcohol-clean your surfaces at the same time - I put a small piece of orange on the window sill they land I spray to disable then then squish -it is a sport...keep your empties in a sealed garbage bag.
The only thing you can do to get rid of them is well......
Move out and let them have the house
2:29 Someone do the math
Me hearing side to side:
CREEPER
aww man
That fruit fly can outsmart Joseph!
CURSE IT
Why children are so hard to steal
In my house we learned to reduce the number of fruit flies we got by putting our compost in the freezer where it wouldn't rot as fast, and where it couldn't be smelled. I didn't mind them as much as my mum did though. They're cuter in real life than these cartoon versions, they're all stripey.
Great information.
*a flamethrower would beg to differ*
It's not hard. All you need is some spray. Any will do
Yeah spray on your food
Afia Zaman
Just keep them away from food and spray them?
Axe?
You don't need the funnel for the vinegar trap, a few drops of dish soap will make it sticky so they fall in and drown.
Who got this in their recommendation?
Meee
Fruit for a fruit fly is the equivalent of a lämp for a moth
I swear, even if you were in the most secure location in the world, they would still be feeding off your fruits
Me and my friends used to be catch this damn thing with our bare hands back in the day. Guess we pretty fast 😎
Nah that's nasty
No one :
PETA: ANIMAL ABUSE!!
Before we had like 1 fruit fly, and soon there was another. But then there were only 2. We left them alone and they just vanished and didn’t come back.
So Fruit Flies have Mastered Ultra instinct!