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For some reason this summer I have more fruit flies in my apartment than I have had in the past. I usually keep the potatoes I buy in my crisper, so I can't blame them. It doesn't matter the time of the year (I live in NY York State), whenever I have bought bananas, I have ended up with a couple fruit flies, but not like what I have recently experienced. I've found them dead on my stove top, probably having fried themselves on the bulb in the stove hood. I've also found them dead in my bathroom sink lately. I went on Amazon to see what traps for fruit flies they have. They have zappers, stickies, and other things. I didn't want to spend a whole lot of money, and I wasn't sure I wanted to get the sticky kind, and have to deal with a bunch of dead bugs stuck to it. I can still remember the long sticky tapes people used to hang to catch flies and moths in their homes. Yuck.

When I first moved in here, and every-so-often, I'd see a silver-fish crawling up my bedroom walls. I'd periodically buy some silver-fish traps on Amazon, and since the last time, I haven't seen any. I have a lot of books, and those darn things like carboard and paper, plus some food items, mostly carbohydrates like cereals, and flour, which I store in plastic bags or sealed plastic containers in my pantry. Never found any in there though. I don't leave any foodstuffs out, other than bananas.

We had some silverfish in the Spring when we first moved here, but after a year or two they disappeard.

Except for the Raid I mentioned, I havend found other sticky things to work very well.