Larvae is my least favorite word of all time.

We spent a good chunk of the day at a swimming pool today. Man, it was a hot one. I purposely didn’t put sunscreen on my legs because I really enjoyed peeling the skin from my 4th of July sunburn and I was hoping I could recreate that experience.
I think I only succeeded in getting a sunburn on my back. This wasn’t on purpose. Now I am going to have to beg someone else to peel it.

Speaking of summer, I have a giant bowl of summer fruit on my kitchen table. It’s lovely, overflowing with nectarines, plums, bananas, and grapes. The down side to having a giant bowl of fruit on my kitchen table is the abundance of fruit flies buzzing around. I really, really hate those pesky little things. They even started invading other rooms in my house. I read online that they can lay up to 500 eggs at a time and the larvae (!) feed on the fruit juices and even the gunk on the inside of your kitchen sink’s drain.

{reading the words larvae and feeding together really gives me the willies}

{knowing that larvae are feeding and growing into more flies and then reproducing more larvae in my house makes me want to set my house on fire.}

I Googled ways to rid my life of fruit flies and found many. I tried a few until I hit on one that really works and as it turns out, it was the simplest one. Go figure.
I’m going to share it with you in case you too, have larvae (!!!) and fruit flies and the willies.

Get a small bowl and pour about an inch of apple cider vinegar into it. Add a few drops of liquid dish soap and set near the fruit, your sink, your pantry or wherever you notice the most flies. Leave it there overnight and you’ll be amazed. The bottom of the bowl was loaded with dozens of those little buggers. Repeat if you still have a few lingering fruit flies. You may have to do it for a few days because they eggs are still hatching. (yuck!)

Anyway. There’s that.