What do you get when you allow over forty pounds of pears ripen so that you are able to can them? FRUIT FLIES! I take fruit fly antics seriously. You think they're cute and little, but I saw one gunning for my eyes today while I was devouring a pear. I saw its wheels turning: "If she doesn't have eyes... She won't be able to see the pear to eat it." Well thought out, Fly.
While they seemed to decrease over the last week as I worked fairly hard to keep food sources out of the picture, today they had a population explosion, so I decided to set up a fruit fly trap. It's simple: A jar, some fly bait (a pear core, in my case), a piece of paper rolled into a cone, and a bit of masking tape to close up the gap that the cone kept leaving. You can see a few flies in this picture, but there are really about 20 in there. I let them go outside right after taking the picture.
What makes this trap nerdy? The fact that the flies must enter through a vortex of nasty looking tensor calculations. I have no clue what's going on there... It's engineering stuff. However, the nerdiness factor is strong.
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