McCannon said:Joanna, did you resolve your fruit fly issue? I haven't had any bug problems. The wriggler population is expanding rapidly. I've been spritzing the bedding daily to overcome the low humidity.
I did, thank you for asking! I put a new bin on top of the current one and filled the new bin with a nice, fluffy layer of shredded newspaper. This helps to prevent the escape or entry of fruit flies. I put out a sticky trap (the type used for mice), and I used a version of the fruit fly trap--it involves a container with about an inch of apple cider vinegar in it with a drop of dishwashing liquid to break the surface tension, a paper cone inserted into the opening, and a plastic bag over the top. Both the sticky trap and the container have a lot of dead fruit flies! Yaay! And it looks like the bin has stopped drying out so much too. The flies that got trapped inside either die there or just never mature or???? There were some for awhile that were crawling around but couldn't seem to fly.
Apologies for not updating before this, but I was super sick. Better now! And I love my wormies, but they're still pretty skinny. Is that just how red wigglers are? Maybe I'm just a mommy who wants her babies to be nice and fat!
