Fruit flies seem to be more annoying than usual this year so, if anyone's still looking for an antidote, from experience, it's not the shredded newspaper per se that's effective but anything that covers the top of the composting material. An old bit of carpet or hessian sack is often recommended. In my black compost bin, I prefer a layer of shredded egg boxes and plain brown cardboard or last year's tomato compost because the little pests live for up to 10 days and clouds used to escape when I lifted the sacking to empty in the contents of my kitchen compost caddy every 3 or 4 days. Also, the shredded material and compost stop the compost getting too wet and are eventually mixed into it.
i have got fruit flies coming out of my compost bin and my water butts - when will they stop? i put water on them they just fly away and just come back there's no end - it's just annoying they never stop do they? joey
Hi, I have a similar problem with fruit flies, however, I don't much care for them and I was wondering if I can put in any other organic material into my compost bin to counteract the flies?
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