Fruit Flies

Drosophila melanogaster

Tiny flies that ride in on produce and turn bar drains, mats and recycling into breeding grounds.

When they're worstSummer into fall. Year round in bars and kitchens with drain or produce issues.

Where they thriveFloor drains, bar mats, mop heads, recycling bins, soda guns, anything with a fermenting film.

Where they come from

From sub-Saharan Africa. They followed people, fruit and fermentation around the world.

Floor drains, bar mats, mop heads, recycling bins, soda guns, anything with a fermenting film.

Ride in on produce, then breed in anything fermenting. Egg to adult in 8 to 10 days; a female lays about 500 eggs.

Modern genetics was born in Columbia's 'Fly Room' in 1910, earning Thomas Hunt Morgan a Nobel.

How we get rid of them

Find and remove the breeding source, bio drain treatment, daily bar cleaning, fly lights.

Fruit flies were the first animals sent to space, on a V-2 rocket in 1947.

The roach that lives indoors, breeds fastest, and causes most commercial kitchen infestations.

The big reddish roach New Yorkers call a palmetto bug, coming up from drains and basements on hot nights.

What New Yorkers call a waterbug is almost always the Oriental cockroach, a dark roach that loves damp basements.

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