It's going a bit nuts

Hip Hops · Post by **Hip Hops** » Thursday Nov 29, 2007 6:33 pm

earle wrote:While we're on it, is the glad wrap also a way to stop those bugger vinegar flies from trying to get in?

What the hell are vinegar flies?

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Thursday Nov 29, 2007 6:36 pm

Small flies that seem to be coated in lactobacillus sp, and have an unnatural obsession with drowning themselves in 20L of your best wort.

Kevnlis · Post by **Kevnlis** » Thursday Nov 29, 2007 6:38 pm

Chris wrote:Small flies that seem to be coated in lactobacillus sp, and have an unnatural obsession with drowning themselves in 20L of your best wort.

Yes and yes! I guess I am going to have to keep a bait for them in the bottom of the brew fridge now. How they got in is anyones guess.

freekq · Post by **freekq** » Thursday Nov 29, 2007 8:02 pm

never seen vinegar flies in Melbourne - thank goodness.

after three batches of using glad wrap it is just provides confirmation of what i've read on this forum and from palmers. i actually feel like I know what is going on....

KEG · Post by **KEG** » Thursday Nov 29, 2007 8:37 pm

freekq wrote:never seen vinegar flies in Melbourne - thank goodness.

i have

freekq · Post by **freekq** » Thursday Nov 29, 2007 8:46 pm

Keg, I've always heard the west side is better than the east

Serioulsly, i'm glad I haven't come across them... yet.

Boonie · Post by **Boonie** » Thursday Nov 29, 2007 9:32 pm

We don't get 'em here in Newcastle.

http://www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane ... index.html

Had to google it, never heard of them before

Funny how the web address is "brisbaneinsects" yet they are in Melbourne too

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Chris · Post by **Chris** » Friday Nov 30, 2007 6:44 am

Yeah! Go the west side. Well, south-west anyway.

KEG · Post by **KEG** » Friday Nov 30, 2007 7:05 am

freekq wrote:Keg, I've always heard the west side is better than the east Serioulsly, i'm glad I haven't come across them... yet.

Really?

I've got a mate from Sunbury, and maaaan.... what a train wreck.

KEG · Post by **KEG** » Friday Nov 30, 2007 7:09 am

Boonie wrote:We don't get 'em here in Newcastle.

http://www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane ... index.html

Had to google it, never heard of them before

Funny how the web address is "brisbaneinsects" yet they are in Melbourne too .

interesting... those vinegar flies aren't the ones i'm thinking of.. i'm thinking of the tiny little black ones, about the size of a small common ant with wings... they LOVE rotting fruit/vegies (probably the same reason they're attracted to beer - fermentation).

i had a bunch of rhubarb in a plastic bag that got "forgotten" on the kitchen table

. When i disturbed it to move it, i had a shitload of them rise up... took a LONG time and a lot of various insecticides to eradicate the bastards.

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Friday Nov 30, 2007 7:51 am

They like fruit??? Maybe that gives you a hint as to what they are...

Kevnlis · Post by **Kevnlis** » Friday Nov 30, 2007 8:48 am

These are the flies we have problems with up here:

http://www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane ... ilidae.htm

KEG · Post by **KEG** » Friday Nov 30, 2007 8:54 am

Chris wrote:They like fruit??? Maybe that gives you a hint as to what they are...

lol, no. they are not fruit flies. i know what fruit flies look like, these are way smaller.

Hip Hops · Post by **Hip Hops** » Saturday Dec 01, 2007 7:26 pm

KEG wrote:
freekq wrote:never seen vinegar flies in Melbourne - thank goodness.
i have

I live in the S.E, and i dont think that ive seen 'em

- But then again, i wouldn't know what i'd be loking for