A recipe for failure: mix fruit flies and restaurants. From: Pest Control | Date: July 1, 2002| Author: Pinto, Larry | COPYRIGHT 2002 Advanstar Communications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Fruit flies are probably the No. 1 cause of callbacks in restaurants. Control is tough because there is so much fermenting material in a restaurant for the flies to breed in (see box), and sanitation is in the hands of the restaurant manager, not the PMP.

Typical fruit fly breeding sites 
 
Fruit flies are attracted to ripe or rotting foods, and breed in 
fermenting foods and in semi-liquid crud, goo, gunk and slime. Examples 
of breeding locations include: 
 
* overripe or...

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