#fruit-flies

#fruit-flies

Zevo's Compact Flying Insect Trap is a wall plug-in that uses UV and blue light to lure gnats, fruit flies, house flies, and other flying insects to the sticky refillable cartridge inside its curved shield (which keeps the bugs out of sight). It traps and kills insects without the mess of a fly swatter or zap of a traditional light trap, and it doesn't contain chemicals like some bug sprays.

You are not alone: social media is full of claims that soaking banana skins in water makes a fertiliser that will give you bigger leaves and better blooms. The hack Put banana peels in a jar of water, leave them to sit, then pour the liquid on your plants. Bananas do contain potassium and small amounts of other nutrients. The snag is you have no idea how strong it is or what's missing.

'I've got three fruit fly traps in my kitchen, and they're all full with fruit flies. 'Where are they all coming from?'

Typically, people think about robots as devices that you build with plastic and metal and the wires and software. But because fruit flies are so well understood, they can be treated as living robots.