compost - fruit flies

absfabs

Farway wrote: »

like pandas, but smaller

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

pandas would be a problem!

JWF

extra tiny miniature pandas would be fine surely? as long as you put plenty of bamboo in the compost heap :j

Lotus-eater

JWF wrote: »

extra tiny miniature pandas would be fine surely? as long as you put plenty of bamboo in the compost heap :j

:rotfl:

When I read about the pandas, I just had this vision of lifting off the lid from a black plastic bin and seeing this huge panda sitting inside it, slowly chewing looking up at me.

Better than the rat I found in there once.

moonrakerz

Lotus-eater wrote: »

:rotfl:

When I read about the pandas, I just had this vision of lifting off the lid from a black plastic bin and seeing this huge panda sitting inside it, slowly chewing looking up at me.

Like this ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzRH3iTQPrk

Lotus-eater

Sort of, without the sneezing and sitting in a black dalek compost bin.

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Just gone down to my compost bin to put in some kitchen waste in and found a lot of little ants. Is this going to be a problem does anyone know? Only put in cuttings from the garden and vegetable peelings and coffee grounds.

Lotus-eater

Ants are always little

And no, they help to chew up the woody waste. :cool2:

Fern_Merkin

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Ants are always little

Not the ones I saw in Sri Lanka! 2+ inches long and orange :eek:

Wouldn't have been so bad if they were where I could see em, not on the wall behind the toilet:eek: :eek: :eek:

gadgetgirl

It may not be the most eco-friendly option, but I found taping a Vapona fly killer stick to the inside lid of my wormery compost bin did the trick (without harming my lovely compost-processing tiger worms deep in their rotting hideyhole!)

katiel

I don't mind the fruit flies in the compost heap, but we seem to get masses of them in the lidded kitchen waste bin just outside the back door - to the point where we give up using it in the summer. The worst experience was when I picked my dad's mega crop of grapes and left them in my kitchen overnight, meaning to make juice the next day ... it took months to get rid of the dratted flies!