Thread 21537995

I don't think a few bugs is that big of a deal. Ants are actually very hygienic, the secrete anti-bacterial compounds and clean up food crumbs. Honestly a kitchen is probably cleaner if it has a few bugs.

>>21537995 (OP)
you vill eat ze bugs (involuntarily)

I have a few fruit flies in my house (they show up every year) and it's driving me insane, how the hell does this person deal with that

I grew up with similar parents (bless their messy souls), I usually clean me kitchen twice a day.

Every time after i cook and floors 3 times a week then hood vents, handles, and cupboards every sunday

>>21538218
google/chatgpt acv dish soap fruit fly trap
works like a charm

>>21538218
I stopped buying fruit all together cause of those fuckers.
Fruit fly free for years and never going back.

The ants aren't the problem. It's that they're a sign that you're a filthy fucking slob. I would never eat at your place if you've got ants or other bugs.

>>21538278
i only really have that problem with bananas. rinsing them when i first get home seems to help. otherwise anything that you can keep refrigerated should be good too.

>>21537995 (OP)
huwite people live like this?

>>21537995 (OP)
I shivered and got the same feeling as seeing a disturbing scene in a horror movie. That shit is absolute nightmare fuel, how can a human live like that?

Fortunately, cockroaches have a habit of forming colonies and eating even dead roaches and feces, so poison baits are effective in a chain reaction.

>>21538391
>effective
For American cockroaches, yes.
If you have German cockroaches, you might as well burn the place down.

>>21538218
get a bunch of spiders and they will deal with these fruit flies, they will be like your little mercenaries

>>21537995 (OP)
Wouldn't that pop the ones in the microwave?

>>21538429
w-what do german cockroaches do that american ones dont do?

>>21538470
undying loyalty to israel

>>21538429
Yes. German roaches are quite resilient and once they infest a home they are almost impossible live along side. The only solution is complete and utter eradication to the very last. A final solution.

>>21537995 (OP)
wouldn't the microwave kill all the bugs inside?

>>21538454
SCIENCE TIME!

Microwaves heat food by using electromagnetic radiation to agitate the water molecules in food to increase their temperature. However there needs to be enough mass to "penetrate" and retain these waves for the mocules to heat up. Very very very small bodies of mass do not heat up and are basically unaffected. You can test they by putting a single cooked grain of rice in the nuke and letting it run for a minute. The rice was be the same temp.
buggers are safe.

If they are allowed to invade and multiply in human homes, hell will break out, but German cockroaches generally prefer commercial buildings to private homes.

>>21538580
Or maybe their gifts of cowardice allow them to go undetected in a residential setting.
You won’t know unless a formal investigation is conducted by competent professionals and overseen by the homeowners.

>>21538278
I already don't have any fruit :(
And the tomatoes are in the fridge!
>>21538432
The spiders lurk in the corners but the fruit fly menace lives on......
No wasps in the house though, at least.

>>21538657
Garbage or fecal matter. Clean your fucking place and scrub your toilet under the lip. Also those little fuckers live in sink drain as well. As long as there is a food source they will keep reproducing but they need food.

>>21538218
one of the only times i had fruit flies in the house and started to become suspicious of their company it turned out i had just left an opened box of pasta in the cupboard for too long and they were feasting upon it
they went away after i threw it out.
no food source = no flies i guess

clean out your cupboards and bleach your floor drains

>>21538677
Uncooked pasta??? They go after uncooked dry pasta??? Fuck! I have a box of lasagna noodles sitting open from 2005 somewhere in the cabinets because I keep forgetting to throw it out!
>>21538676
I really do think they're coming from the drains though, because the fly paper over the kitchen sink gets an awful lot of them, I guess I can just try pouring a bunch of bleach down the drain?

>>21537995 (OP)
I cannot stand a messy kitchen. I don't know how you can live like this. I used to share a house with some people who were really messy, and it completely killed my appetite. I would starve myself because I couldn't bring myself to use the kitchen. Nowadays when renting a place, having a kitchen space to myself is my #1 priority.
Anyway, I do a full clean maybe once a week, but I try to clean up as I go too so it never gets too messy. Dishes get done at the end of every day. I would not tolerate bugs in the kitchen, except the occasional fruit fly in the summer cause there's really fuck all you can do about that.

>>21538308
ants are not a problem. if you live anywhere but a city ants regularly invade your bathroom even. nothing to do with leaving food out

>>21538657
get more spiders, make your house look like that one place in austrailia with the spiders everywhere

>>21538992
i am taking the bait for this but bro, if you seriously have shit in your kitchen old enough to post here then we need to see some photos of this kitchen.

>>21538218
Tie a garbage bag to the end of a fan and put something sweet to attract them in close proximity. Flycaust

>>21537995 (OP)
Vacuum once every 2 weeks and a full clean (with bleach spray) of the sink and counters every 3 weeks.

If I spill something that’s normally refrigerated then I clean that up right away with cleaning wipes

>>21537995 (OP)
fuck what the fuck i feel itchy now

I got ants once and I just followed them to the holes in the drywall they were getting in from and spackled them shut.

>>21538218
mosquito nets in every window. don't let them enter your home.

>>21539142
I did the same. It really is not that hard to deal with ants. Your house is not supposed to be a colander.

>>21537995 (OP)
And I thought I am a messy asshole for having three fruit flies in the summer.

God damn I lived in literal trailer parks for age 6-15 and it was never this bad. It is true mental illness at that point.

>>21537995 (OP)
My mother was a borderline hoarder and when I still lived with my folks I would have arguments with her about the kitchen specifically. Of all the places to leave messy, the place where you prepare your food should not be it. I give my kitchen a thorough wipedown at least once a week with bleach cloth and I don't let anything stay dirty for more than a day or so.

>>21538218
Does your sink have a garbage disposal? It so, try bleaching it. As well you my have fungus gnats which live on potted plants

I used to live like this. Worked a part time job, lived at a trailer park, made enough money to cover a hundred bucks a month for lot fees and electric (owned the trailer at least), and would spend the entire rest of my day drinking and smoking pot and just didn't do anything else at all. Lived like that for years, would just shoo away the roaches on my bed, which was covered in trash except for a man shaped spot where I'd sleep. I dont really know what set me straight, one day I just had an epiphany: drinking and smoking pot all day, and doing nothing else, ISN'T a good thing and that I should fix my shit. Now, thirteen years later, I drink and smoke most of the day, but always take time to clean up my messes. Still trailer parking it, but it's clean and bug free now

>>21539521
I lived with my grandma who had some ww2 famine trauma. She'd hide food all around the house. We got mice. She was also a neat freak and would set off all the mousetraps by sweeping and dusting wherever I put them, so it was impossible to keep the population in check. Deaf too, so only I could hear them in the walls day and night.

Literally drove me insane.

Chucked her into the cheapest geezer home run by somali niggers years ago and never spoke to her since.

Mouse free now, but still insane. I still hear them in the walls in my dreams.

>captcha: NO JOY

>>21539726
Maybe it wanted you to write Somali capitalised?

>>21539726
Alright Delapore

>>21539726
maybe you should have vacuumed the food and gotten an exterminator

>>21537995 (OP)
jfc

>>21539065
You don't want to see photos of the kitchen it's not funny messy it's just boring messy
Also if they go after eggshells I do have a ton of those?

>>21539726
Anon that's terrible I lived with my grandma in this house and ever since she had her stroke I go visit her at the nursing home every day :(
AND THEY HAVE FRUIT FLIES TOO!

>>21538218
Everything people have said so far is bullshit.
You don't exterminate fruit flies by making traps while still doing a habit which allows them and their eggs to survive. You'll kill hundreds but they'll just keep coming.
Instead you should keep your fruit in the fridge, clean your sink and flush it with hot water plus put your organic trash in the freezer (or just dump the bag every day). Don't leave any organic crap out for them to infest. Clean your shit including stovetop and floors. Don't leave apple cores or other stuff in any trashbins.

Keep it up for at least 2 weeks as a fresh batch of flies takes 8-10 days to hatch.

>>21539812
>Listen to that gnawing coming from the wall. That's here. That's home. That's us. Everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every humanbeing who ever was, lived out their lives to that tune. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived listening to that sound. An implacable metronome, like a heart beat. The rhythm that life dances to.

>>21537995 (OP)
>thinks $2 microwave potatoes and peas is a good deal
>boils chicken anyway
>not smart enough to buy 4x the amount of fresh potatoes and peas and just chuck it in with the boiling chicken
Poor people logic

I wipe down the kitchen every few months and clean appliances within a day or two but only if they are visibly messy or dirty. Never had a bug issue besides a bi-monthly roach, and there was one rat that showed up after someone else in the building had accumulated a ton of filth which I quickly caught. I'll occasionally spot a stray ant and decide to throw out the garbage early but I've never seen more than one per week. I think the huntsman spiders are doing most of the work.

>>21539851
think how much money he could save if he set up bug traps and ate them instead of chicken. stupid morons paying for protein when it is available for free right there.

>>21539835
My grandma is a vampire. Everyone who had prolonged contact with her either died young or went insane. You've never met a person so dedicated to hate. She hated my cousin since before he was born and spent my whole life trying to turn me against him and spent every waking moment slandering family members and stoking family feuds. I stuck around cause I was the only "good" one, but then she forgot how much she hated everyone else and turned all the madness onto me.

If she's lonely now, its just deserts. Don't feel bad for people who finally lay in the bed they made.

>>21539050
The fact that you believe ants are inevitable tells me just how grotty you actually are.
We get ants (and pseudoscorpions to eat them) in the bathroom from time to time and it's a reminder to clean up the fucking place and check for entry points.
Give your bathroom a wipe down, you filthy fuck.

>>21539946
Ah, yeah, one of those kinds of people, I'm thankful to not have any of those in my family but there's certainly one or two at the nursing home, I suppose I can't blame ya then

>>21539829
m8 flies eat everything
they will eat your corpse and your poopoo

your house sounds like it generates ozone and that alone attracts pests

why do you have eggshells inside the house
throw them in a compost heap outside

you

>>21537995 (OP)
>Ants are actually
...able to bite you in the sink or sink water. WTF. Clean up your kichen and put out ant bait.

>>21539946
>My grandma is a vampire.
Typically the really mean types have money and threatens to withdraw it every time you call them on the bull they spew. My own grandma changed the will to the "maid" since no one else deserved it. People in the end of their life can always do that.

>>21539946
>its just deserts

Sahara or Gobi?

>>21538224
>bless their messy souls
Nigga if your kitchen looked like that growing out you were straight up abused

>>21539726
I'm not saying I don't understand you, but you should have treated her better. You really should

>>21539077
Why would this kill flies? And which side of the fan would the bag go on?

>>21540351
on the back of the fan of course
just think about it anon

>>21540356
So the fan is just going to suck all the air out and collapse the bag against the back of the fan, or maybe even suck it into the fan blades depending on what kind of grill it has, and this is somehow going to kill flies?
Have you actually tried this or is it just some retarded scheme you're poorly imagining?

>>21539050
>f you live anywhere but a city ants regularly invade your bathroom even
there are 3 types of ants, depending on what attracts them is how you get rid of them. If they are in the bathroom, they are seeking water or were driven up from the ground by rising water, a lot of rain. That's good to know. You attract them with the bait for sugar ants, boric acid in liquid.
They will take it back the the queen and you will not see them for literal months. They are not inevitable. Kill them.

>>21540368
never said i dont kill them. im just saying that ants coming into a house has NOTHING to do with the conditions of the house.

>>21538470
>>21538484

>>21540280
>Americans don't have inheritance laws keeping parents from trolling their kids out of it by signing some new will 2 months before dying
Oof. Here you can't even give away portions of relatively large sums of money without risking it getting filed as "pre-inheritance" and retracted. It has to be done a significant amount of years before death.

I may be tempted to have the freedom way but people really go absolutely coo-coo in the head when they start dying of old age. My parents do not wish to give everything they have to a cat shelter now while keeping their wits about. I also ain't chucking them in a home or abandoning them so it wouldn't be a typically fair 180 to make.

>>21540365
>still doesn't get it

Lmao

>>21540420
>ants coming into a house has NOTHING to do with the conditions of the house
Incorrect, you dirty fuck.

>>21537995 (OP)
I once got a flatmate who lived like this during my final semester in uni. Got my rent reduced, because the kitchen wasn't usable. Fortunately I got to stay at my fiancées (then gf) place most of the time, so I hadn't had to deal with his shit too often. Guy was also cobstantly sick. I wonder, if he has managed to unalive himself by now, with sheer grossness.

>>21540345
Abuse is a flat circle

>>21538992
> I guess I can just try pouring a bunch of bleach down the drain?
If they're drain flies they're covered in slime that tends to protect them from drain cleaners. Pull your p trap, and scrub down it and the sink drain with a brush and soapy water.