{"id":17518,"date":"2013-08-16T15:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T19:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=17518"},"modified":"2013-08-16T15:02:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T19:02:00","slug":"fruit-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/16\/fruit-flies\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruit Flies!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/aroundthehouse\/various_bits\/IMG_7526.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"This decaying banana is the source of a bunch of fruit flies in the kitchen.\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/104485-2\/IMG_7526.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The kitchen has a bunch of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Drosophila\">fruit flies<\/a> in it, and apparantly they are coming from (or at least feeding on) the hole in the top of this banana. Based on their light color I suspect these are very young fruit flies, so they are probably breeding in there as well.<\/p>\n<p>After sealing it in a zip-top bag I&#8217;ve thrown out the remaining bananas, but not after taking the most-rotted upper section and putting it in a pint glass, covering the top with foil, and piercing it with a toothpick (<a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/aroundthehouse\/various_bits\/IMG_7527.jpg.html\">photo<\/a>). Hopefully this will work nicely as trap for the remaining flies that seem to be lingering in the area. Ten minutes or so have passed since I assembled the makeshift trap and it already contains four flies, so it looks promising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kitchen has a bunch of fruit flies in it, and apparantly they are coming from (or at least feeding on) the hole in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/16\/fruit-flies\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fruit Flies!<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-house","category-food","category-making-things","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17518"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17521,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17518\/revisions\/17521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}