"Robert Miles" > wrote in message
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>> I tried leaving fruit out here. Not only did it spoil quickly but we got
>> fruit flies. Oddly on Cape Cod where it was a lot hotter and more humid,
>> the fruit didn't spoil and I never got any fruit flies.
> Maybe there were no fruit flies bringing any bacteria to spoil it?
>
> Isn't that an area that freezes part of the year? If so, fewer insects
> should be able to survive the winter.

Yes. We did have a very hard freeze each winter followed by 2 weeks that
were called the mud season. No spring to speak of. Then we went right into
summer. I know there were fruit flies there though. I had to walk through
a swarm of them each night to get to the dumpster when I was working at the
golf course.