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Fruit flies have a strong sense of smell, which they use to find accessible food sources like bananas, apples, drains, garbages, fruits and vegetables. You can use this trait to your advantage by utilizing scents fruit flies hate, such as peppermint, basil, lavender, lemongrass, and citronella oil. Repotting a plant involves removing it from the soil it’s currently in and replanting it in new soil. Take care not to damage its roots when doing so. Fungicides for gardeners (Adobe Acrobat pdf document outlining fungicides available to gardeners) Links
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Question: The shoots/twigs/branches of my apple tree are covered with a grey-coloured crusty growth. Is it harmful?The most basic type of fruit powder. In this process fruit is passed along a set of rollers through a heated chamber (Roller-Drier), tumbled in a heated drum chamber (Drum-drier) or passed along a belt conveyor through a heated chamber (Belt-drier). This high-temperature process removes as much of the water as possible, and then the dehydrated fruits are milled/ ground/ crushed into a fine powder. Vacuum-dried Fruit Powders While fruit flies do not cause any harm to houseplants, fungus gnats can damage the roots of younger plants, potentially stunting their growth.
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Fruit flies can transmit bacteria like salmonella, E. coli, and listeria, which can lead to food poisoning and, in severe cases, even require hospitalization and put lives in danger. MB: When it comes to oils or copper and lime sulfur, if those products are applied when there's foliage on the tree, you can get phytotoxicity (damaged or burning of the leaves). And if it's even later than that, you could potentially get burning of flowers or roughening of the fruit. Sadly for them, the dishwashing liquid breaks the surface tension of the liquid, they fall in, and drown.
If you have a container in the kitchen for keeping scraps for the compost heap, it could also be a source of fascination for the pesky fruit flies. MB: Apple trees, for instance, can get a number of diseases like apple scab, cedar apple rust, and there's a new one that we're dealing with called Marssonina leaf blotch. If these diseases get severe, they can defoliate the tree. If the tree defoliates, then it can't photosynthesize. And if it can't photosynthesize, then it can't create the sugars and the nutrients and the compounds that it needs to stay healthy as a tree or to grow good fruit. We see the end of the dormant season when the bud scales and the overwintering fruit buds start to expand slightly, and we can see a change in color in the bark and in the buds. That's really when we can say, okay, it's game on. The growing season has started.
