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I would leave the bananas out on the counter, let them get very very ripe, and then harvest the energy of all the fruit flies flying around the house. --- Thi
by Stratoscope 5y ago
I would leave the bananas out on the counter, let them get very very ripe, and then harvest the energy of all the fruit flies flying around the house.
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This leads me to a serious question. We all know you will have a house full of fruit flies if you leave ripe bananas out. But where do they come from?
Are they already in the house in some latent form, just waiting for ripe fruit that they can lay eggs in?
Or are they swarming outside looking for that whiff of ripe banana gas, and they sneak in when you open the door?
Where do fruit flies come from anyway?
- brenns10 5y agoThey come in on your produce as eggs!
- Hallucinaut 5y agoAnd, with this small comment, I have become a banana-washer
- Stratoscope 5y agoAh, but are the fruit fly eggs on the banana peel or in it? I do have a friend who insists on washing a banana before peeling it, and washing an avocado before cutting into it. At first I thought it was silly, but it actually makes sense. You're probably going to touch the banana with the same hands you got dirty from the peel, and the knife could push anything icky on the outside of the avocado peel into the delicious fruit.
- jve 5y agoMoreover you never know how many different hands handled those fruits and how much chemicals did it endure until it landed on your table. And you are touching that banana too.
- aqme28 5y agoI don't know how you eat a banana, but I'll basically never touch the banana itself.
- pitaj 5y agoYou should wash everything you cut through: avocados, melons, etc. Because the knife blade spreads germs into the innards as it cuts through. A banana is different. Unless you touch the fruit, the germs from the outer skin don't come in contact with it.
- wasmitnetzen 5y agoDon't worry, the eggs won't survive your stomach acids.
- justsomehnguy 5y agoThey don't because they are already there. Just like the mould.
- calmoo 5y agoFor anyone looking to get rid of fruit flies, leave a small shot glass full of some sweet vinegar (white wine vinegar, balsamic, apple cider) with a few drops of dish soap. The sugar attracts the flies and the dish soap breaks the surface tension and causes them to get trapped in the liquid. Works a treat.
- phreeza 5y agoAbiogenesis doesn't seem like such a ridiculous idea after all...