It's summer so that means...

Freshly grown Nova Scotia fruit flies!

And, boy, do we have them again this year. They seem to be particularly fond our our compost containers even though they mostly just contain carrot and celery refuse. Fruit scraps are nowhere to be found in my compost containers.

Fortunately, during the height of last year's invasion Jeannette figured out how to make a relatively simple fruit fly trap that seems to be somewhat effective, at least the fruit flies seem to be attracted to it. Unfortunately, this time around I seemed to make holes that may be a little too small to easily allow the flies to enter.



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Anyway, even with its flaws, this thing is much better than nothing. Now that I think about it, I wonder why we don't set up a second trap to handle the overflow from the first one?