AlFulchino
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just a quick note to discuss eradication of fruit flies...somewhere along the line, here or elsewhere i mentioned a new fruit fly had invaded the northeast from elsewhere in the country....this one lays its eggs on fruit and the larvae burrough into good fruit.....so some extension agents have advised grape growers to consider harvesting fruit earlier than normal....so we now have two fruit fly enemies old and new......but really to my reason for writing...since the harvest time was so wet this yr we had more fruit flies than normal..... anticipating the problem during harvest tasks we set up a high power fan in the area for production....ahead of time....within two hours of placement and operation we noted thousands of dead fruit flies in front of the fan on the ground...we cleaned the area and each time interval we noted less and less until it was nothing more than a simple nuissance
thus one day later when we began crush we had really no issues at all
the flies have their wings broken because of the fan and the general force of air.....just wanted to pass this along...we all use fans to keep flies away from bottling areas etc when flies are in season...but using a high powered fan ahead of time is a pre-op against this enemy really really works better than the traps etc
thus one day later when we began crush we had really no issues at all
the flies have their wings broken because of the fan and the general force of air.....just wanted to pass this along...we all use fans to keep flies away from bottling areas etc when flies are in season...but using a high powered fan ahead of time is a pre-op against this enemy really really works better than the traps etc