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[–] Please_Do_Not@lemm.ee 98 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If Grandma had wheels she'd be a bus

[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'll have to read this some other time when I'm feeling a little smarter and can understand the words. But I do love some home made fruit fly traps! When there's a teenager in the house and it's warm outside, they are a miracle.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

What do warm teenagers have to do with fruit flies?

[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

Fruit flies are attracted to the different human life stages by temperature inversely proportional to the humans age. They like hot babies, warm adolescents, cold adults and the rest can kind of be fit into that continuum.

[–] GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 5 points 2 months ago

Most teenagers I know, and myself when I was one, are much messier than at any other stage in their life. The issue for most is that they are old enough to start sneaking food into their rooms that a kid wouldn't, or that the kid can't hide as effectively. I've had to come spray for pests in more teenagers rooms than any other part of the age spectrum.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not sure either. Maybe because when it’s warm out, kids and teenagers are constantly running in and out of the house, maybe not closing doors behind them, which lets flies in?

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

That makes sense.

[–] 200ok@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Very distantly related: if you have indoor plants and fungus gnats (often mistaken for fruit flies) get mosquito bits and thank me later 💪

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are those like bacon bits?

[–] 200ok@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Protein packed

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Fruit flies are made of atoms so this device obviously works.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] cassowary@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Tell me more about these erotic fruit flies

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Tell me less about these erotic fruit flies

[–] GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That... is unsettling. I remember the fruit fly experiments I did in college, and I am now barfing imagining those vials being put opened in an orifice.