Quick Tip – Repelling Fruit Flies

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fruit bowl with rosemary

This year, the usual horde of fruit flies swarming our fruit bowl seemed non-existent. I realized this is probably due to the herbs we have on our kitchen windowsill. Strong-smelling herbs, oregano, rosemary and others, repel fruit flies. Even in winter months a few stray fruit flies make their winter abode in our home. To keep them out of the fruit bowl I’ve placed a piece of rosemary amidst the fruits.

Herbs that Repel Insects

19 thoughts on “Quick Tip – Repelling Fruit Flies”

      1. DE is silica! It is one of my best finds ever – it is diatomaceous earth and the food grade is what to get

        http://www.richsoil.com/diatomaceous-earth.jsp

        and in 2006 I had my friend try to get me to use it for the pets – like in their food and she raved about it (she had a dog rescue and knew her stuff on some things) anyhow – I finally tried it years later and it does wonders for cleaning or to sprinkle in the window sills to naturally keep those areas fresh – and last summer j have a Baggie of DE to my friend who had fruit flies and it worked in her kitchen – also – my peach tree had a trunk fungal issue and I slathered DE on it and it dried up and the tree was saved – but I should have done it sooner because by the time I got to do it the damage was large. Anyhow – a huge bag of DE is less than 20 bucks and it is also good to drink – I will not go into that too much – but my fav herbalist suggests letting it sit in water over night – and drinking it the next day – while others just say drink some night and day for two weeks and in early 2014 it was part of my initial internal cleansing – then I used MSM and then did herbal cleanse –

        Diatomaceous earth consists of fossilized remains of diatoms, a type of hard-shelled algae. It is used as a filtration aid, mild abrasive in products including metal polishes and toothpaste, mechanical insecticide, absorbent for liquids, matting agent for coatings, reinforcing filler in plastics and rubber, ant

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          1. My pleasure – and the only caution is to not breathe it in a while bunch – the fine particulates can get into lungs – and some people just cover their breathing while using. There are also beauty treatments with DE (like exfoliating) and just so much more so please let me know what u think about it when you try it after the holidays 😉Xxoo

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  7. Unknown's avatar Anonymous

    I just discovered, by accident, that rosemary repels fruit flies! We picked our tomatoes, peppers, etc. and put some in bowls on the kitchen counter. My husband had also cut some rosemary sprigs to cook with and threw what he didn’t need into the bowl of tomatoes, etc. We had other tomatoes just placed on the counter to continue to ripen. Some of them were ripening quicker than I realized. I thought it was strange that the fruit flies were not bothering the vegetables in the bowl where the rosemary was…for days! It finally dawned on me – maybe the rosemary was the reason! And indeed it was! Thanks for corraborating my suspicions, lol!

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