If you have a kitchen, you will have fruit flies at some point. It’s as simple as that.
“They are everywhere,” says Theresa Dellinger of Virginia Tech’s Insect Identification Laboratory. If you end up with some in the kitchen, don’t feel ashamed. They’re just a part of nature in your kitchen. “Everyone gets them,” she says.
Here’s what you need to know about these ubiquitous insects, including where they come from, how to prevent them and how to eliminate them once they show up.
What are fruit flies?
The scientific name for what we see in the kitchen is Drosophila melanogaster, or “black-bellied dew lover” — “probably one of the more poetic names out there,” Dellinger says. They’re small and winged, with characteristic red eyes.
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