I really hate it when they fly up my nose.

[astra_nomer]

There seems to be an infestation of fruit flies in the building here at work. They've been swarming around people's lunches for the past week or so. I just killed about half a dozen of them while sitting here in front of my computer. They're driving me nuts! They seem to be attracted to my coffee... that's all we need, caffeine-jazzed fruit flies swarming around.

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[arcanology.livejournal.com]

You know, if you would just stop sticking fruit in your nose, they would stop trying to fly up there.

Plus we're all grossed out by it. We were too polite to say so when it was just grapes, but the plums... you have to stop, it's not healthy.

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

Flypaper is cheap and works pretty well.

Finding and disposing of whatever they're eating works better, but takes work.

I do recommend letting a lot of water run down the sink drain (if your work has such thing as a kitchenette with a sink). Often something tasty ends up in the trap and they live off it for a while.

Good luck fighting them off!

[astra-nomer.livejournal.com]

Flypaper might be the best option.

I don't think they're actively breeding in my office, but I don't have much control over what goes on in other people's offices.

There isn't a kitchenette nearby, so that's not a likely source.

My officemate suspects the microwave oven in the lounge, because it's pretty disgusting. ewwwww....

[shumashi.livejournal.com]

Flypaper seconded, though I used the long hangy type when we had a problem.

[aaltair.livejournal.com]

At least it didn't fly up your nose while you were presenting information to a visitor at your science museum, and then, when you tried to ignore it and pretend it didn't happen (attempting to preserve some level of professionality), crawl back out and hang out on your upper lip long enough to be unignorable cause you to need to acknowledge the pure grossness of the situation.