These little bastards are trying the extent of my metta. I've been purchasing more (overly ripe) fruits and veggies recently and because of this Ive accumulated the lagest fan club of fruit flies that refuse to leave my apartment. I've been in the worst of funks as well and when that happens I neglect a lot of things. I forget about my general health and wellness. My yoga practice flies up and out of the window and I turn into this big blob of blah. I would have very much liked to lie in bed and not worry about the state I had left my apartment in until I was ready to deal with it. But alas I have these tiny little assholes clumsily flying into my face and my morning tea, reminding me that I've let my surroundings turn to shit and it's seriously time to get back on track.
What do you do when you've started seriously practicing non-violence? I can't kill these things? I already feel incredibly guilty about forcibly eating turkey my neighbor gave to me (in the sprit of the holiday's I suppose) I don't want anymore death and dead things all up in my space.
So what do you, you wait. And I waited, I waited a few weeks, I set a bowl of vinegar and dish soap on my kitchen counter hoping to catch them and kill the nicest way possible and when that didn't work I left all my windows open hoping they would just fly away and that didn't work either. So Im going to give it three more days, clean my kitchen from top to bottom and see what happens. If that doesn't work I'm running to my nearest corner store to by a combat bomb and just nuke the place.
I apologize in advance fruit flies, but your demise is imminent and resistance is futile
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fireflies:
I come from a big family of extroverts. Needless to say, holiday gatherings exhaust me. 2 weeks at this time and Christmas will be over and I can breathe!
freakpirate:
Take a piece of ripe fruit and place it in a glass. Cover the top of the glass with plastic wrap and poke a few small holes in it. The plastic wrap. Not the glass. The flies will be able to get in but not out. You can just release them outside if you like. I had fruit flies a while back and found that to be the best way to get rid of them.