Fruit Fly Trouble 180

1) You can buy flying insect spray for fruit flies. I don't care what the brand or the price -- THEY DO NOT WORK! No effect what so ever on the supper fruit flies in my area. 2) 5 or 6 a day? If you ever visit a winery when they are crushing grapes you will find out what a fruit fly infestation really is. They are there in clouds. They are landing on everything. And the wine comes out OK. 3) Even if they do inoculate your wine, and they certainly can, that does not mean it will turn to vinegar unless you use really bad wine making techniques. To turn to vinegar, the wine must be exposed to air for a really long time. Months. If no air, no vinegar. Read up on how vinegar is made. You start with wine, you inoculate it heavily (not with a few fruit flies), and then you wait for months. 4) Cleanliness helps but they are drawn to the smell of the fruit. When you get it in secondary and have the area clean, they will start to disappear -- in a few days. 5) Make sure you do not have other fruit such as bananas or apples for eating in the area. Once they are drawn to the wine making they will stay for other fruit.

Ray