"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 6/26/2015 5:56 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
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>> "Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
>> news
>>> On 6/26/2015 6:56 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
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>>>> Hardly. I have to smell the stink each time I open the bin! I have
>>>> had
>>>> problems with fruit flies before but never this.
>>>
>>> Once emptied, wash it out with a hose, then put a little bleach and
>>> wash it again.
>>
>> Is there something else that would work? Bleach gives me severe
>> respiratory problems.
>>>
>>> Let the garbage dry a little before adding it to the bin.
>>
>> That's what I had tried to do. But someone else put it right back in.
>> I can't keep the food in the house now because it is drawing fruit flies
>> and quickly stinking in the heat. But maybe I will have to come up with
>> some sort of other, smaller bin to put outside and dry out. But then
>> that would likely draw ants or something. We are having problems with
>> bugs of all kinds this year.
>
> Never heard of pesticides?

I suppose those are blatantly used where you live. Here, we try not to use
them. I do have to use them on occasion though.