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attracting fruit flies for hummingbirds? - 2006/05/31 14:34
I've recently gotten several hummingbirds chowing at my feeders. I would like to find a good way of attracting fruit flies for them so they can chow on them too, both for their benefit and so I can video tape them doing it.
Has anyone got a good method of doing it?
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re:attracting fruit flies for hummingbirds? - 2006/06/01 12:53
I find which strange, but I've always thuoght it myself, because how else can it happen? Lets say you have a perfectlly clean house, never have flies, ants, roaches, anything like that. Lets add winter to the mix, and there are virtually no if any bugs around anyway. Let a tomato go bad in the hangin basket by the fridge, and viola; fruit flies. In addition to that not that my house has ever been that clean, but I have had the tomatos. The only other option is they have been wanderin aimlessly thru the air, and have rather enhanecd noses, and are smart enough to wait until you open the door, and woosh!
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re:attracting fruit flies for hummingbirds? - 2006/06/01 14:56
Now, imagine tiny littls adult fruit flies fornicating on your figs.......
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re:attracting fruit flies for hummingbirds? - 2006/06/02 09:41
it as added protein.
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re:attracting fruit flies for hummingbirds? - 2006/06/03 05:08
As you may expect I believe W.C. Fields said it best. Thereafter imagine the cigar & the drawl when readin this,,, "I does'nt drink water, fish f&*k in it..." I said which so a friend of my wife's recently, & she apparentlly had never heard it. Had to move her diner plate & put her head down gigglin for at least half an hour.
Lets also think about what catfish & lobster eat, & for you liver eaters, think about just what the liver does. Oh, Steak and Kidney Pie!
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re:attracting fruit flies for hummingbirds? - 2006/06/03 18:55
I used to lay a small banana or cherries and a plum on the top of L bracket that my feeder hung from, however the hummers were happier with them a few feet away from the feeder. I just stuck up another L bracket on the other porch post then hung the fruit in one of those net fruit bags from the store. I'd roll them on the counter under my hand, back and forth, to soften them up and stab them once with a fork just to get things started.
Choose the ripest you can find at the store. I finally asked my produce guy and he would go into the back and get me some nice skwooshy, over ripe, hopefully bruised fruit they were ready to toss and just gave me one or two.
He thought I was crazy until I told him why I wanted them and he later told me he was doing the same thing. I think plums and cherries work best. Once
I hung them in that bag there were some of the finches and a nuthatch that would hang on it and peck away too. I don't know if they were after the fruit or the bugs.
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re:attracting fruit flies for hummingbirds? - 2006/06/04 08:35
Without soudning ironic, leave some fruit out to rot. First I have always wondered about fruit flies. If you've a tomato or brightly something which is going bad on the countyer, or in the basket that you forgot about, all of the sudden there are fruit flies. Formerly do they actually hone in on this smell or something from miles away, get into your house, or are they in the fruit all along......
I can't help you, but you made me think about that.
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re:attracting fruit flies for hummingbirds? - 2006/06/05 00:28
.......or what the fish have been doing in the lake you swim in........or, just where that egg came from that you eat in the morning.........some things just shouldn't be thunk 'bout These are the threads that get going when I REALLY miss Bob.....BAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-B! Where are you when we need you Bob?!?!?!?!?!?? *sigggghhhhhhhhhhh*
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re:attracting fruit flies for hummingbirds? - 2006/06/05 01:24
I don't believe they could be in there the whole time.
For one thing the FDA (or whoever) wouldn't allow fruit that was so contaminated with insects to enter the country on such a regular basis. For another thing, they are pretty quick to show up around areas where beer and other beverages are spilled and lay for a while, and we *know* they aren't in beverages all along. And also, there would have to be maggots before there were flies. We wouldn't always have to notice them, but they would always have to be there at some point. I haven't noticed maggots around fruit fly infestations often enough to believe what you suggested is true. And then there's the issue of how the eggs could get inside the fruit.
*Maybe* fruit fly could inject eggs into thin skinned things like grapes somehow (though I doubt it), the they sure couldn't do it to a thick skin like a banana--the skin is thicker than the flies themselves.
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re:attracting fruit flies for hummingbirds? - 2006/06/06 11:43
Are you serious? The flies are in healthy, un-rotten fruit all the time?
Oh, **splorg**, that's gross!
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re:attracting fruit flies for hummingbirds? - 2006/06/07 08:33
Heck, I was trying to be funny! Im not sadly surprised,though. My tomatos seem good for fruit flies. The ones which I've with bad spots & such that I plan to cut off the bad spots when I do some cannin, then don't get around to the caning; my wife gewntly threate..... Further reminds me that the tomatos shuolkd probasbly be dealt with....
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re:attracting fruit flies for hummingbirds? - 2006/06/07 18:29
Put out over ripe bananas and let them rot. As you know it drawns plenty of flies/nats.
I've never seen a hummer eat them. Here, I think they find plenty of insects on the underside of the tree leaves.
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Re:attracting fruit flies for hummingbirds? - 2009/06/28 17:29
I have found that when you cut up mush mellens and put the seeds in a cup or bowle the fruit flies will come . Lots of them .
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